terabyte

[potterfan3]

how long before terabyte hard drives + internet con, and did i spell terabyte right

[Mooseman166]

If you mean, how long will it be before hard drives with a capacity of a terabyte are made ? - Its been done, ages ago. Commercial 1Tb drives have been around for yonks.... it may be a while before they are common in your average laptop from dixons though......

[fo3nix]

you can buy 1TB drives alreay, sure:

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3TVD& CategorySelectedId=11154&NavigationKey=11154,40129

[fo3nix]

Oh and sorry... it'll be a long time before you see a terabyte connection for the average home.

[aiden]

Terabyte drives are NOT recommended, however unavailable. Imagine filling it and then it biting the dust, you think 10gb of MP3s is a painful loss lol.

look into RAID to acheive 1TB+ capacity.

2. UK backbone links to US and EU backbone links are probably not even 1TB connections, a long while. A 612MB Asymmetric connection to the net costs about 1.2million pounds a year. But consider this.... a modern CISCO router (carrier grade) can handle 4TB/S throughput. Mind boggling.

[fo3nix]

This /. article may be of interest to you:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/30/134 8242&from=rss

note that's a teraBIT line... i.e. 8 times slower than your suggested line in the question.