This is a damn good price for a 1 Terabyte harddisk. You better believe it.
Link to store: http://www.thepotterhouse.net/livestore/product_info.php?products_id=5214]
Saw it on a thread in VR-Zone forums.
Has the terabyte age has dawned upon us already? I remembered pestering my dad to buy me a 4.3GB drive back in the 90s, for about S$200+. Now a disk 200 times larger costs less than that. At S$199, it’s roughly S$0.20 per GB only. Harddrive prices are going down so fast! Now how about them SSDs?
Of course, don’t be fooled by the lingo. The “1 TB” referred to here is simply a marketing term, meaning it has 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (check out the footer on the specifications section of its product page). Whereas an actual 1 TB is 1099511627776 bytes. Thus, when you plug this in your PC, your Windows or Linux OS will display 931.32GB (actual value is 931.322574615478515625 bytes). Sorry Macs, I’m not sure if you can simply upgrade or add disks like that (but I have a strangely strong feeling you can’t).
However, I would still love to add this to my repertoire soon…
Tags: harddisk, potterhouse
