Have you heard new hard drive holds Terabyte of data?

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Just when you get to used of Gigabyte (hundred billion of bytes), Dell with a Hitachi drive breaks the ice. In case you are wondering, as printed text a terabyte would occupy 100 million reams of paper, consuming some 50,000 trees. It is enough to hold 16 days (not hours) of DVD-quality video, or a million pictures, or almost two years worth of continuous music. The leap from 500G to 1T required breakthrough in "areal density" (how tight the bytes are packed on the surface of the disk). The trick is the bits were standing up rather than lying down. Initial cost is about $500. The limitations of this technology is about 50T which can held a century of music. With this memory capacity, you won't have any problem saving all your dvd movies, digital pictures and mp3 music. As if you have a server at home. Amazing isn't it?