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Friday, January 16, 2004
Can I bum $1200 off you?
Lacie, makers of external storage devices, has just taken the cake for outrageous and amazing storage devices.They recently announced their newest product called fittingly, Bigger Disk. It's an external hard drive you plug into your computer via Firewire or USB. Of course that's nothing special as there are plenty of companies selling these.
Lacie takes it to the next step by having 1 Terabyte of storage in the box! That's 1 Terabyte, 1,000 Gigabytes, or 1,000,000 Megabytes. To understand the amount of storage you could have let me give a few examples:
- 500,000 Pictures From a 3.2mp digital camera (That's 24 pictures a day for the next 50 years)
- 250,000 MP3s (That's almost 2 years of non-stop music)
- 1,500 CD-Rom Images (Use a virtual CD program and never touch a disc again)
- 100 DVD Movies (Make you entire collection available at a fingers touch)
You get all that in something smaller than a shoebox!
I'd love to get my hands on this thing. Plug it into a small form factor computer from Shuttle and install the network version of Virtual CD on all my computers. I'd never have to touch spinning media again. Every one of my applications, games and even music CDs would be centrally stored and easy to access. It's a geeks dream really
$1200 for the Lacie Big Disk
$500-600 for a SFF box
$75 for 5 user private license of Virtual CD Network Edition
That's not too bad of a price for the ultimate File Server. Of course moving that much data around over a network would mean I'd have to dump my 802.11b wireless for a gigabit wired network. So that'd start to add up a bit more to the overall cost. Good Intel Gigabit network cards cost around $100.00 and a 8 port gigabit switch(fancy hub) will run you $150.00 to $200.00. Still well worth it though!
on 01/16/2004 at 02:45 PM