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Why are the HDD's so big?
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I does not. You missed the part where the glass comes off in 2 seconds. Goes back on in 2 as well. Its got a 1" thick black bezel around it, just keep your grubby paws off the clear part.
Its a simple 2 step process to move your iTunes and iPhoto and movies library to an external drive.
Heres 3TB for $129. Thats 4 cents per gigabyte.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148750
You can have a huge music library pretty easy, just dont compress your stuff to MP3s. Either keep them native AIFF or some for of lossless and that can take up space fast. Dont forget that movie and TV shows are in your iTunes library as well, can make it really big fast. Mine is about 100 gigs, with a few TV shows -- but I probably only listen to 2 gigs worth of it.
Upgrading the hard drive in an iMac does NOT void the warranty! If you break something while doing it, then yes that could void the warranty.
If you buy an HD movie on iTunes, you get an SD version also. This was about 2 GB for a 90 minute show. Imagine how much 6 seasons of the TV show Lost takes up in HD and SD storage, hundreds of GBs.
If you buy an HD movie on iTunes, you get an SD version also. This was about 2 GB for a 90 minute show. Imagine how much 6 seasons of the TV show Lost takes up in HD and SD storage, hundreds of GBs.
Depends how often you buy CDs.
If you bought 1 CD a week for the last 20 years and the average size in Apple lossless compression was 400 MB, then you would have 416GB of music in iTunes. When I was young I purchased much more than 1 CD a week.
Back in the day, there were mail order CD clubs that charged a cheap price for CDs, though they nailed you on the shipping charges.
Just saying some people collect music more than others.
hehe that's a lot of p0rn
If you can get 2TB in price of 500GB why you shouldn't take that? You are not forced to use it anyway.
DvD - 4,7GB
BluRay - 25GB
Technology doesn't sleep - you can do exaclty the same what you have been doing past 5 years and the capacity you will need will be much bigger.
Look at this not from 1 year perspective but 10 years - could you still have 5GB hard drive?
Yes, apple lossless files from 2500 cd's alone takes up 1 TB alone and then I have at least 500 gb mp3 and aac Music files
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Yes, apple lossless files from 2500 cd's alone takes up 1 TB alone and then I have at least 500 gb mp3 and aac Music files
Only about half my music library is in lossless but damn...
Impressive sir!
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My music is around 150 GBs (apple lossless) and my movie collection is about 6 TBs and growing as I rip my DVDs and Blu-ray discs.
A better idea would be an on-demand iTunes streaming service. Then you wouldn't have to load up your hard disk with all of that downloaded content (unless you wanted to keep some of it there). Of course, right now, we don't really have the infrastructure to support such a service of high definition content delivery at a real-time rate of delivery (so maybe Apple would think to look into addressing this).
Even better would be to just make all iOS devices with 8GB of FAST flash memory. Then, have a service to deliver the big purchases when you need them. The new Apple TV is a step in this direction. Again, however, we still don't have the infrastructure to support this rate of data usage.
As far as your idea for making the hard disks slightly smaller, it would hardly do any good. Hard disks are already dirt cheap as it is. I'd like to see solid state disks become more mainstream (the reliability has to improve and the price has to drop first) and for 10,000 RPM drives to become the new standard for hard disks (and almost as affordable as 7200 RPM drives).
Even better would be to just make all iOS devices with 8GB of FAST flash memory. Then, have a service to deliver the big purchases when you need them. The new Apple TV is a step in this direction. Again, however, we still don't have the infrastructure to support this rate of data usage.
As far as your idea for making the hard disks slightly smaller, it would hardly do any good. Hard disks are already dirt cheap as it is. I'd like to see solid state disks become more mainstream (the reliability has to improve and the price has to drop first) and for 10,000 RPM drives to become the new standard for hard disks (and almost as affordable as 7200 RPM drives).
I have no specific numbers, but I believe that with .4% failure rate, the Intel SSDs are already considerably more reliable than mechanical hard drives.
5400 RPM drives (or better said Green drives) are already the new standard for mechanical drives. The days of 7200 being the standard are over and 10000RPM will never catch on since SSDs are cutting of their margins. Too much noise and heat make 10k drives not suitable for consumer grade hardware and to be honest, there really isn't much need for them either. For OS/apps SSD is the way to go and data drives don't need to be 10k as Green drives already provide sufficient performance for the majority of users.
That being said, Samsung just sold their hard drive subsidiary to Seagate because they didn't see much point in continuing the development of mechanical hard drives. Give it another 5 to 10 years and no one is speaking of spinning any more.
Finally... Who said 5400RPM drives are the new standard? They are only the standard for newly introduced higher capacities because they cannot make those drives faster.
Samsung sold the hard drive operation because it was money losing with lack of scale, and not strategic.
Samsung sold the hard drive operation because it was money losing with lack of scale, and not strategic.