Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month 246
It doesn't come easy writes "Japan's Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled the world's first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one terabyte of data, or enough to record about 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasting."
Ain't exactly a "1Tbyte dvd recorder", is it? (Score:5, Informative)
So not a new DVD format as I first thought (Score:2, Informative)
calrification (Score:5, Informative)
RTFA... (Score:4, Informative)
"...which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives..."
It isn't a terrabyte DVD, it's a terrabyte of HDD storage.
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Yen to dollars (Score:4, Informative)
From TFA:
Re:Media (Score:3, Informative)
It takes normal DVD's - and so not that much, since you can get a pack of 25 for £5 in the UK (single layer), and it is probably cheaper elsewhere.
Here comes the math (Thanks google) (Score:5, Informative)
HDTV is approx. 19.3 megabit/sec
Google sez:
1TB / 19.2 megabit / second in hours = 121.362963 hours
Which is actually not nearly as much of a marketing lie as I expected.
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Pointing out the bad obviously math (Score:2, Informative)
When actually:
One Terabyte = 1099511627776 bytes of data
One Gigabyte = 1073741824 bytes of data
One Megabyte = 1048576 bytes of data
One Kilobyte = 1024 bytes of data
So what you have here is a 0.91Tb drive not a 1Tb drive as advertised.
If memory serves this whole 1Mb=1,000,000 bytes thing was started by Maxtor in the 90s to make their drives look bigger than the competition. This kind of math may be easier, but it's still incorrect with respect to HDD storage. Damn you Maxtor!
Domito