Richtig said Fred!

A terabyte of storage is not unique nowadays, but when it comes on only 2 hard drives you start wondering what exactly do people put on these drives.

With the soon to be availlable high density medias like the Blu-Ray Discs which stores 50 Gigabytes per side or the HD-DVD at 15 Gigs per side we will surely need those 500 Gig beasts if we want to hold more than a couple games on a typical PC. Do you remember Quake III which had state of the art graphics just a bit over 5 years ago, well it was considered needy at 25 Megabytes of recommended hard drive, last year Doom 3 came out with a recommended 2.2 Gigs of recommended hard drive space, if you do a little math that is 88 times bigger, and if you do a bit more in 2009 you could see a game using 193 Gigs of you precious hard drive space.

Also if you’re thinking about recording TV five years from now with an HDTV signal you will consume at least 5 times more storage than with currents DVDs per hour of television, so with 500 Gigs you are looking at barely 20 hours of recording time.

The American Library of Congress which is the largest library of the world holds approximately 17-20 Terabytes of information with more than 128 millions items. Imagine 10 years from now when your average hard drive will contain more than this.

The article on Hitachi’s new 500 Gig Hard drive can be found on CNN here.

There is another acticle which argues that the Porn industry will decide which DVD format will prevail, you can find it here.

Now I am pissed! I have had yesterday my third motherboard in 2 months that had blown capacitors resulting in early computer death caused by bad electrolyte. The defective motherboards in question are all K7S5A from ECS , a company that produces cheap motherboards. What ECS lacks in quality they offer in consistency, all 3 moterboards have had blow capacitors due to a cheap electrolyte that made the news 2 years ago.

This has been a very costly experience so far, these ECS motherboards were all running on PC133 SDRAM (Memory), the newer model only run on DDR 333 SDRAM, forcing me to buy new motherboards as well as new memory.

But 3 motherboards out of 5 in 2 months ?!?!?!!! That’s not a statistic anyone can be proud of!

You can read an article that explains the problem here

Here are the eBay/PayPal links if you want to donate to various charities that help the victims of the Tsunami.

The link to the eBay Tsunami Disaster Relief is here.
The link to the PayPal UNICEF Tsunami Disaster Relief Effort is here.

You can also read an article on Wikipedia which describes the Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Thanks to the marketing geniuses at Playboy, they now offer nude pictures to their paying members who own Apple iPods, they even call this feature iBOD…

Read more from the CNN article here or read the article on InternetNews.com here.

On an unrelated note the Mars Rover celebrates its first year on Mars! Go Rover Go Go Go!

The Mars Rover mission status is here.

If you want nudie pics of Mars, you can have the color pictures or the more raw pics.