{"id":519,"date":"2011-03-02T06:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/03\/02\/110302_3tbdrive\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T06:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:35:43","slug":"110302_3tbdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/02\/110302_3tbdrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Seagate Announces 1st 3TB Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t really need to be a certified geek to appreciation the implications of a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagate.com\/www\/en-us\/products\/desktops\/barracuda_xt\/\"> three terabyte hard drive priced under $300<\/a>. That&#8217;s about a 50% increase over the previous maximum capacity, and enough storage to hold over 400,000 songs. Or you could store a hundred Blu-Ray movies (at 30 gigabytes each).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Unfortunately, many computers won&#8217;t be able to take advantage of this extra storage without installing extra hardware or software, due to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/158233\/2011\/03\/barracudaxt.html\">30-year old decision about hard drive standards<\/a>. Fortunately, Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6 users don&#8217;t have this limitation, so Seagate&#8217;s drive will work for them right out of the box. Their biggest problem is going to be finding one of these massive drives; Seagate&#8217;s website shows them to be out of stock, already.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>OK, perhaps that&#8217;s not the biggest problem. I suspect figuring out how to back-up one of these drives will be the real challenge. It would require 600 regular DVDs to make a copy of a full 3 terabyte hard drive.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[I had to use an Excel spreadsheet to make the preceding computations, because I can&#8217;t wrap my mind around numbers this big.]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t really need to be a certified geek to appreciation the implications of a three terabyte hard drive priced under $300. That&#8217;s about a 50% increase over the previous maximum capacity, and enough storage to hold over 400,000 songs. Or you could store a hundred Blu-Ray movies (at 30 gigabytes each). Unfortunately, many computers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/02\/110302_3tbdrive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seagate Announces 1st 3TB Hard Drive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-macs","category-computers","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}