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Why would anyone need a 1TB drive?
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Um don't you mean RAID 1. It sounds like you are mirroring.
RAID 0 is striping and NOT safe at all...
Exactly. My main machine has ~3.3TB in and it still won't be enough in a few months! I'm a bit of a data hoarder though, I hate deleting stuff!
Same here, I keep just about everything.
And I think the 250 GB HD in my MBP will be too small sooner than I think...
...probably will need an external HD for long videos and such in a year or so.
Video editing takes up the most, by far. 1tb doesn't even come close nowadays to fulfilling the space needs for HD video editing.
I do that, plus run two seperate versions of windows (3 partitions including Mac OS X), and I'll run a lot of games (many of which take up 10gig a piece), as well as plenty of photoshopping and photo storage.
That... is why I would need a 1TB drive. Or a couple of em.
I do that, plus run two seperate versions of windows (3 partitions including Mac OS X), and I'll run a lot of games (many of which take up 10gig a piece), as well as plenty of photoshopping and photo storage.
That... is why I would need a 1TB drive. Or a couple of em.
Same as many others...
Got 150Gb iTunes library, Wife has 80Gb iTunes library, i have 70Gb of RAW Digital Camera files plus the processed ones, I have them backed up onto a USB drive and a mirrored NAS drive
Data volume gets burnt pretty easily these days .... we're leaving behind terrabytes of data legacy...
Got 150Gb iTunes library, Wife has 80Gb iTunes library, i have 70Gb of RAW Digital Camera files plus the processed ones, I have them backed up onto a USB drive and a mirrored NAS drive
Data volume gets burnt pretty easily these days .... we're leaving behind terrabytes of data legacy...
Musicians, film makers, and some graphic designers need more than that space. Also, if you download wav files instead of mp3 files you will probably need about 4+TB for your music. A wav file is about 1gb a piece for just a simple song, but the quality is completely lossless. I have about 750 mp3s at 320kbs and the songs are about 6 minutes long a piece. The file size for those are about 17mbs and my entire music library takes up 10gb of my hard drive. Most people have more music than that, but probably at 192kbs which is roughly about 3-5mbs per song. (192kbs claims that it is "CD Quality" but its not. Wav files are.)
Now if JUST audio is 1gb and lossless, i couldn't imagine what a movie would be like at lossless! I think even with blu-ray they have to compress it some.
Now if JUST audio is 1gb and lossless, i couldn't imagine what a movie would be like at lossless! I think even with blu-ray they have to compress it some.
I also keep a full back up of my media off site on an external HD to protect against the worst at my house. In the event of a fire or theft, I will always have my precious videos and photos.
Probably for a casual user, yeah, 1 TB is a bit overkill for regular storage and so on.
But definitely those who are power users and using their Mac for professional reasons can use 1 TB, or even more.
And if you back up your whole computer a lot though, even for a casual user, 1 TB could probably come in handy.
But definitely those who are power users and using their Mac for professional reasons can use 1 TB, or even more.
And if you back up your whole computer a lot though, even for a casual user, 1 TB could probably come in handy.
I don't know why you'd need 1TB internal, but if you don't want any external drives on your desktop, then I guess you'd want as much internal storage as possible. I took the approach that a 320GB internal drive is plenty big enough for my apps, OSX and a Bootcamp partition, but I have 2.25TB in external FW storage. Photos and video, like others have said, eats up HD space.
I guess each person uses what they need--personally I need a lot and also have 2.5TB of external storage--with 2TB online at all times. I really like using external storage as it is more flexible for me--I've used only about 200GB of my internal drive.
To have somewhere to put all my HD footage.
Came home from location today with 30GB of footage and that´s just one day. It adds up quickly. I´m sitting here now tryin to find some space to do a 3rd back up and I have to delete stuff to make room. You can never have enough
Came home from location today with 30GB of footage and that´s just one day. It adds up quickly. I´m sitting here now tryin to find some space to do a 3rd back up and I have to delete stuff to make room. You can never have enough
"640k ought to be enough for anyone."
Seriously?
LOL, I was thinking of that exact quote when I read the subject line
Bill Gates was truly a visionary
Umm... are you serious???
All this "normal user vs pro user" stuff is completely BS, imho. So what about the average Joe user who knows nothing about computers but wants all his DVDs ripped to his hard drive? Or the grandfather who wants to keep all the video of his grand kids? Are these "pro users", or a "normal users"? It just comes down to what someone wants to do with a particular computer.
The fact is, you can never have too much hard drive space. Especially today, where audio/video files are getting bigger and bigger.
LOL, I was thinking of that exact quote when I read the subject line
Bill Gates was truly a visionary
Umm... are you serious???
All this "normal user vs pro user" stuff is completely BS, imho. So what about the average Joe user who knows nothing about computers but wants all his DVDs ripped to his hard drive? Or the grandfather who wants to keep all the video of his grand kids? Are these "pro users", or a "normal users"? It just comes down to what someone wants to do with a particular computer.
The fact is, you can never have too much hard drive space. Especially today, where audio/video files are getting bigger and bigger.
Usually people who rip dvds to their hdd or even home movies do so using highly compressed or even lower quality file formats. Many of them are happy with the drives that came as standard with their machines.
