Just got a email from seagate...

[mesk]

announcing the worlds first 4,thats right FOUR TB HDD

Announcing the world's first 4TB external drive. With enough capacity for 1.2 million photos, 1,000 full-length movies, or nearly 66,000 hours *of music, the 4TB GoFlex Desk drive will let you store, protect, and do more with everything that's important to you.

Will I be getting one? your damn right I will!

[Adultery]

I'll wait, I bet the price is a bit on the outrageous side. I want one though... I want one real bad! LOL

From XBitLabs.com:

The new 4TB GoFlex Desk drive is now available from Seagate directly and will be available from select online retailers within the month for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $249.99.

[mesk]

TBH,I was about to start looking for another HDD,I took my 1.5tb out of its usb case and put it in the PC,and its almost full.most likely will wait till the holiday shopping sales

[Draco1962]

Wait for it and they will issue the same drive under the Maxtor name (or have they deep-sixed that brand since acquiring it?).

[mesk]

OFF TOPIC @ Draco

I see you have been playing VB,have your played the wario land game? it is the best game for VB,besides teleroboxer.Also have you tried the mednafen WIP? it runs VB much better then reality boy

also im pretty sure maxtor has been given the ax.

[hansolo77]

....wow

4tb's? I still have 500gb drives in my server. And even then, I only have 4.2 tb's total in 10 drives! I finally bought my first 1tb drive for it just a few months ago. And it didn't even work on any of my SATA controller cards (pci expansion controllers) because it was too large. It only worked on a dedicated motherboard controller. I highly doubt it will handle 4tb's. I'd almost bet it wouldn't even handle a 2tb. I remember lots of talk about how the 3tb's would cause major headaches to users because of the contoller size, and that some people would actually have to engage a jumper on the drive, limiting it's capacity.

Granted, I'd love to have one, or 10. To replace all my 500gb's would be awesome. But eventually I'd get to the point where I had all these extra spare drives and nothing to use them for! What a terrible thought!