Blog: Byte Me by Calyber

Welcome to the terabyte club! I freaking LOVE having lots of storage. I have my entire music collection backed up on 2 or 3 completely different drives "just in case" --plus all my photos and TV and lolcats.

I remember when I stole a 4GB HDD from my mom and gave her my 1GB. When midis were the frequently traded music files... wow.

So old!

You have a Terabyte!?

Jealous...

The scary thing is that even the terabyte will become standard a few years down the road.

We'll need something to hold our personal AI assistants. HAL for Real!

i enjoyed that refresher on bytes. thanks caly!

What kinda parts did you use for the PC ? What are the specs for the new PC ?

Nice.

Between my WD 320GB SATA3 internal drive, 1TB External WD Drive (2 500GB drives), and 400GB WD external drive, I'm sitting at just over 1.7TB right now. Though I have the two 500GB drives inside my 1TB external drive setup in a Raid 1 mirror (Mmmmm fault tolerance).

Sadly...I want more.

/Magiz out

For what ? I about a TB with my 3 computers and I don't even use half of it so what could take up so much space that you need so much ?

Do they have a 10,000 RPM TB drive? I'll just wait until that comes out.

I don't know much about the witchcraft you were spouting in your article - but I will say this:

You spelled 'bite' with a 'y' instead of an 'i', tee-hee, you so funny .

I had to buy a 1TB Firewire drive for editing class. And I'll need it all, too.

That was informative... A Terabyte Harddrive wow it's almost like humans are creating little electronic universes....almost god like behaviour...
It's mindboggling in a way.
I'll have to read THAT again for sure...oh yeah!!!!
Most of it I don't understand...of course.
My hard drive's only 60 GB
And it's amazing how much information and stuff that's capable of.
I would definetly join the club if a knew more about it.

Just keep in mind, people, that having a total number of hard drive space does not mean you can use it all. You must leave out at least 100-150GB for the defragmentation software unless you want to use it all and suffer access lag by never defragging.

My bytes are terrific.

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Originally posted by x_DWI_x:
What kinda parts did you use for the PC ? What are the specs for the new PC ?

*Gigabyte EP35 DS3R Motherboard (I think that's right)
*Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz Processor (Won from R6V Tourney at PAX, with the help of Psyche)
*4 GB (4x1GB) Corsair DDR2 800 RAM
*ATI All-in-Wonder x1900 256MB PCIe x16 videocard (Thanks Jeff, aka RoyalBuffDaddy!)
*1 TB Seagate SATA 7200RPM HDD (Thanks Seagate!)
*80 GB WD SATA 7200RPM HDD
*GreenPower 700W Power Supply (Won at raffle at some event... can't remember which)
*Logitech USB Gaming Keyboard & Mouse (Thanks Logitech!)

I'm adding a 750 GB external Seagate drive for auto-backups too, just so that nothing is lost. There's room to upgrade still, but it is serving my needs at the moment, so I is happy.

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Originally posted by Calyber_FD:

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Originally posted by x_DWI_x:
What kinda parts did you use for the PC ? What are the specs for the new PC ?

*Gigabyte EP35 DS3R Motherboard (I think that's right)
*Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz Processor (Won from R6V Tourney at PAX, with the help of Psyche)
*4 GB (4x1GB) Corsair DDR2 800 RAM
*ATI All-in-Wonder x1900 256MB PCIe x16 videocard (Thanks Jeff, aka RoyalBuffDaddy!)
*1 TB Seagate SATA 7200RPM HDD (Thanks Seagate!)
*80 GB WD SATA 7200RPM HDD
*GreenPower 700W Power Supply (Won at raffle at some event... can't remember which)
*Logitech USB Gaming Keyboard & Mouse (Thanks Logitech!)

I'm adding a 750 GB external Seagate drive for auto-backups too, just so that nothing is lost. There's room to upgrade still, but it is serving my needs at the moment, so I is happy.

That is a nice PC configuration to boot! Anyways, are the Logitech mouse and keyboard part of the G series?

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Originally posted by PaperEleven:

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Originally posted by Calyber_FD:

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Originally posted by x_DWI_x:
What kinda parts did you use for the PC ? What are the specs for the new PC ?

*Gigabyte EP35 DS3R Motherboard (I think that's right)
*Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz Processor (Won from R6V Tourney at PAX, with the help of Psyche)
*4 GB (4x1GB) Corsair DDR2 800 RAM
*ATI All-in-Wonder x1900 256MB PCIe x16 videocard (Thanks Jeff, aka RoyalBuffDaddy!)
*1 TB Seagate SATA 7200RPM HDD (Thanks Seagate!)
*80 GB WD SATA 7200RPM HDD
*GreenPower 700W Power Supply (Won at raffle at some event... can't remember which)
*Logitech USB Gaming Keyboard & Mouse (Thanks Logitech!)

I'm adding a 750 GB external Seagate drive for auto-backups too, just so that nothing is lost. There's room to upgrade still, but it is serving my needs at the moment, so I is happy.

That is a nice PC configuration to boot! Anyways, are the Logitech mouse and keyboard part of the G series?

Yes! G15 keyboard and G9 mouse. Oooo, they're so wonderful. The keyboard has a little screen that constantly updates me on my CPU and RAM usage, has a stop watch, and a clock and calendar. I love watching my CPU go up and down... makes me feel very informed.

Must....resist....getting a G15.......

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Originally posted by Calyber_FD:

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Originally posted by x_DWI_x:
What kinda parts did you use for the PC ? What are the specs for the new PC ?

*Gigabyte EP35 DS3R Motherboard (I think that's right)
*Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz Processor (Won from R6V Tourney at PAX, with the help of Psyche)
*4 GB (4x1GB) Corsair DDR2 800 RAM
*ATI All-in-Wonder x1900 256MB PCIe x16 videocard (Thanks Jeff, aka RoyalBuffDaddy!)
*1 TB Seagate SATA 7200RPM HDD (Thanks Seagate!)
*80 GB WD SATA 7200RPM HDD
*GreenPower 700W Power Supply (Won at raffle at some event... can't remember which)
*Logitech USB Gaming Keyboard & Mouse (Thanks Logitech!)

I'm adding a 750 GB external Seagate drive for auto-backups too, just so that nothing is lost. There's room to upgrade still, but it is serving my needs at the moment, so I is happy.

Pretty nice !! I am looking into a new PC soon but don't think I need it yet because I only want it for a game or 2 and some new games I want are coming out for 360 and PS3 soon so I wouldn't use it much.

Did you get an all in wonder for capturing your games ? I have an older AIW 9800 pro and it worked great for capturing Halo 2.

What games do you play on the PC ? Maybe we can get some PC games goin

Actually most harddisk manufacturers use the SI units for kilo = 1000 etc. Not in powers of 2, like 1024. So basically you're talking about kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes etc. Windows reads it as 1024, so that's why a 1TB harddisk (so 1000*1000*1000*1000 bytes) looks less in Windows. As you can see, the differences will add up a lot, percentage wise.

With kilobyte vs kibibyte, you get 1024/1000*100%=2,4%
However terabyte vs tibibyte, you get (1024^4)/(1000^4)*100%=almost 10% ! So Windows says your drive is 10% smaller. Pretty big difference.

To add to the confusion, RAM manufacturers do use the powers of 2... great world.

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Originally posted by x_DWI_x:
Did you get an all in wonder for capturing your games ? I have an older AIW 9800 pro and it worked great for capturing Halo 2.

What games do you play on the PC ? Maybe we can get some PC games goin

The AIW card has the ability to capture an analog signal like cable or antenna TV, but not my games because I play in HD. I could downgrade my game quality, but the footage wouldn't be that great.

I'm not playing much PC games right now. Mischief and I are teaming up to compete in H3 at MLG Meadowlands, so most of my gaming time goes to Halo. But pre-MLG crazy practice time, I was playing a lot of Team Fortress 2 on PC. Man, that game is fun.

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Originally posted by scworld:
Actually most harddisk manufacturers use the SI units for kilo = 1000 etc. Not in powers of 2, like 1024. So basically you're talking about kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes etc. Windows reads it as 1024, so that's why a 1TB harddisk (so 1000*1000*1000*1000 bytes) looks less in Windows. As you can see, the differences will add up a lot, percentage wise.

With kilobyte vs kibibyte, you get 1024/1000*100%=2,4%
However terabyte vs tibibyte, you get (1024^4)/(1000^4)*100%=almost 10% ! So Windows says your drive is 10% smaller. Pretty big difference.

To add to the confusion, RAM manufacturers do use the powers of 2... great world.

I read about the kilobyte vs kibibyte on Wiki while I was writing my blog. I didn't know that most harddisk manufacturers us the SI units, though. They should just universalize and choose one or the other... though, I think the same thing about metric vs standard, but that'll never happen.