A Terabyte In A Cigar Box

Anonymous Howard writes "LaCie has introduced a 1 Terabyte (capacity) disk for (get this) only $1,199.00!(USD) It is external and equipped with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, iLink/DV, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 to connect to both PC and Mac. Take a look here."

Sorry..

[holzp]

Cuban hard drives are illegal to import in the United States.

So many ports!

[rco3]

Wow, FireWire 400, 800 *AND* iLink / DV ? How did they do THAT?

And, it not only does USB 2 but 1.1 as well? That's amazing!

Now, does it have a Philips-head screwdriver, too?

hmmm...

[d3m057h3n35]

in other words, stor more pr0n than you could ever possibly view.

Finally!

[pantycrickets]

A cigar box full of porn!

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

introduced a 1 Terabyte (capacity) disk

Terabyte??

Ohhh... capacity! Whew - I thought terabyte was a colour or something!! :-/

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"Bigger Disk"

[EmCeeHawking]

The primary subtitle is "Bigger Disk", which is suspiciously similar to the subject lines of half of the spam I get.

Re:hmmm...

[LocoSpitz]

More than you could ever possibly view, maybe. Wimp.

Yes, I'd like a terabyte of those Dutch Masters,

[Limburgher]

2 Gig of Cubans, and I'll try one of those custom hand-rolled jobs you got there. Yeah, the one with the pointy ends.

For the record...

[Guano_Jim]

That drive will only hold 1/20th of the Library of Congress [yahoo.com].

Buy 19 more if you want to be cool.

Re:So many ports!

[throbbingbrain.com]

Now, does it have a Philips-head screwdriver, too?

Perhaps a bottle opener... (*smash*)

Re:wow...

[xankar]

five.

consider me a soothsayer.

Re:Man...

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I remember when 100 megs was cool

You youngsters ...

I have an 1st gen IBM PC here that says 5M was once very cool, so cool it was double-height and you had to park the heads before sneezing, and a PDP-11 in my collection that swears 512K removable disks the size of my satellite dish, with the washing-machine-sized drive that went with them, were all the rage back then.

Re:thought of the day

[DumbSwede]

what would lisa simpson's anus taste like?
Simple: ass-etate

Clear accetate sheets are what traditional animation is drawn on, for those that don't get it. Plus I get an informative mod, rather than offtopic

Don't kill my karma, he brought it up.

Re:No, only 0.9094 TB

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple started making hard drives?

Re:USB 1.1?

[chunkwhite86]

Wow. I calculate it would take about 10 continous days to download or upload one of these over USB 1.1.

How about over Parallel port? (like zip drive)

Or infrared port?

Or PS/2 keyboard port?

Or by carrier pigeon?

1TB PlayStation 2 storage server!

[ikewillis]

For ~$350, you could buy yourself a PlayStation 2 and the Linux kit, and have yourself a slick looking 1TB Linux powered NFS/Samba server. Sure you could build it yourself cheaper, but think of the cool factor!

Re:Man...

[chunkwhite86]

I have an 1st gen IBM PC here that says 5M was once very cool, so cool it was double-height and you had to park the heads before sneezing, and a PDP-11 in my collection that swears 512K removable disks the size of my satellite dish, with the washing-machine-sized drive that went with them, were all the rage back then.

You've got nothing on my punched card computer.

Ever played UT2k3 on an ENIAC? Frame rates are terrible.

Re:Man...

[TCM]

#234 rule on slashdot: never mention something you think is oldskool. Some old fart will come along and tell you about stuff that's been even less desireable to have owned. And they won't stop! Please, make it stop!

Re:Slow interface = bottleneck

[The Tyro]

lesse here... 1 Terabyte at USB 1.1 speeds.

1,000,000 megabytes / 1.5 megabytes per second... Divide results by 3600 (number of seconds in an hour)

Thinking, thinking...

Oh, about a week to back this drive up at USB 1.1 speeds. Heh... so much for your vacation plans.

Re:Finally!

[Sideshow Coward]

Don't laugh... but when my grandpa died a couple of years ago, he actually had a cigar box of naughty pictures. Now we think of him with a little different perspective. FYI... my brother won the box of porn in a raffle.

Waiting for Apple annoucement

[mackman]

The rumors site are going wild over this new 1 TB drive. Seems there's been some discussion of a big brother to the iPod, the "iPod MEGA!". Prototypes are about the size of a shoe box and purportedly store over a year of music. The external lead-acid battery weights about 80 pounds and fits snugly next to the iPod MEGA! in the included backpack. Introductory price of about $28,000. Steve Jobs is at it again!

Re:Beware...

[waltmarkers]

Actually, a long time ago they were going to use the MiB notation.

But then, a movie company sued them for trademark dilution, because they didn't think it was nearly as cool as their movie, MiB = Men in Black.

But then the real problem came when some men came, flashed this thing in their eyes, and the hard drive companies completely forgot about MiB notation, and hence GiB and TiB never came to be.

Re:For the record...

[Lxy]

Yes, but considering that it's small, you can probably fit 20... yes, you can fit the library of congress into a Volkswagon!

Anyone taking bets...

[jcsehak]

...on how long till it becomes self aware [lacie.com]?

Hmm...

[El_Ge_Ex]

Imagine a beo... opps I mean imagine a station wagon full of these. :)

-B

Re:Man...

[athakur999]

you whipppersnappers and your newfangled rules. back in my day, we didn't have a rule #234. old farts used to talk about long gone days ALL THE TIME for no apparent reason ABOUT ANYTHING. And we liked it.

Re:Not a 1TB *disk*

[BigBir3d]

Like every other hdd on the market? How rude!

For everything else there is Master Card

[Swai]

Terabyte disk = $1200 usd.

Air ticket to Thaiti first class = $6000 usd.

Having a Margarita by the beach = $20 usd

Blackmailing your former employer with all their sensitive databases now in your posession= PRICELESS!!!.

Re:Man...

[pjrc]

this represents the first leap beyond what the ordinary person could ever hope to use.

Well, except for 640k of memory....

Re:No, only 0.9094 TB

[sulli]

Exactly. The real way to do it is to measure drives in songs. 40 GB = 10K songs, so that means 1 TB = approx. 250K songs. Minus Apple's DRM overhead.

Re:USB 1.1?

[Molina the Bofh]

... and then, on the 1056th year:

Carrier lost. Download aborted.

Tivo upgrades anyone?

[mlawmlaw]

Does anyone have the HOWTO for upgrading my tivo with one of these? I really need 1250 hours of capacity.

Not sure..

[Hangin10]

Not sure I like the analogy between cigars and
HDs... Do you want your HD on fire?

Although, If my HD was on fire, I might get depressed enough to smoke it...

Re:For everything else there is Master Card

[Swai]

Offtopic!!!!, guy you have your sense of humor in your ass.

Hail the stupid moderators!!!.

Ad for a job at a hard drive manufacturer

[TClevenger]

Marketing researcher wanted. Salary: 100,000 dollars** per year!

** One dollar = 10 cents

Re:Finally!

[Prune]

That's right, sell out your dead grandpa's secret for Slashdot Karma!

Re:USB 1.1?

[Mostly a lurker]

In response to ...

... and then, on the 1056th year:

Carrier lost. Download aborted.

... get a more reliable telephone service!

Re:Sorry..

[phong3d]

Yes, but the store that offers them for $169 has ratings of "LIARS! THIEFS!" in their Pricewatch writeups. The more reasonable prices (~$220) offered there have much higher store ratings.

"if you were a real man..."

[shaunyb]

i told my GF i wanted this, and she was like "Why, because it's big?", "...yeah..." "Are you trying to compensate for anything?"

Re:So many ports!

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod parent (-1: Whoosh!)

Re:RAID and what happens if a drive in it goes bad

[useosx]

And in the event that my home catches fire, I can grab an external drive on the way out the door. Try that with a 100lb server.

I guess your kids, at 100lbs total, passed out in their bedroom are fucking screwed then, eh?

Re:Man...

[Alan Hicks]

you whipppersnappers and your newfangled tongues! Back in my day we just sat around and worked on inventing language!

Re:Sorry..

[Moofie]

WOOOHOOOOO!!!!

*konks self on head with foam hammer*

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA!

Re:Back up to what?

[Anonymous Coward]

How about 694,445 floppy disks?