Dell and Alienware are the first PC manufacturers to include an internal 1TB (that’s one terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes) hard drive as a build-to-order options on their systems. You’ll find this hulking hard drive on “select” XPS, Aurora and Area 51 boxes. Adding 1TB of space will cost you just a little bit, somewhere in the neighborhood of $540 (at least for the XPS setup). A quick search on the Internets brings up 1TB external drives for at least $100 less. Dell might have some explaining to do.
And yes, Dell goes on and on about how many “digital photos” you can store on a 1TB drive (allegedly one million). But we all know what you’ll really be storing on there: hours upon hours of gonzo.
Press Release [Dell via Electronista]
The Alienware pcs looks amazing though and they were one of the first to offer blu ray drives with their pcs. Now you can have 4tb easily although you may take a while copying all that data off your dvds of even downloading that!
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Alienware desktops/notebooks
http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/glossary_extension/?q=node/18
That’s pretty awesome. Hopefully, when I get some cash on me, I’ll buy one.
Sorry, but there’s an error in the message. 1TB = 1024 GB, not 1000GB.
And where are u finding thsee $100 or less 1TB external HDDs? please tell. lol.
@Daniel. Stop trying to be a smartass. A terabyte is 1000 gigabytes. 1024 [b]gibibytes[b] is referred to as a [b]tebibyte[/b]
learn to read
@Bite
To be honest, Daniel is right….
@Daniel
Computer manufacturers see 1 megabyte = 1000 bytes, not 1024 bytes. I am unsure why. But there is not an error in the message. Sorry.
It was stated that you could find 1TB hard drives for around a hundred dollars less than what dell was charging…not that you could find a 1TB hard drive for 100 dollars.
Please read!
:P
The terabyte external drives I have seen are actually multiple (2×500GB) drives in a RAID 0 configuration. I have not seen an actual TB drive for sale yet.
At current prices buying several smaller drives costs less than a single larger one. I.E. look up the price of two 250GB drives ($116) vs. a 500GB drive ($127). Or buy two 500GB drives for less than a single 750GB drive.
The TB drives are going to be at a premium price for a while.
Sure 1000 GB drive unformatted… probably 800 gig formatted. Still pretty cool and will hold plenty of gonzo.
RAID0 2×500GB = same storage, big $$$ savings and much faster access… this is just for shows.
BTW if you’re considering buying an Alienware system, just google alienware+service and think again.
@Lee: sorry, Daniel is wrong (if Wikipedia is right): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte. The reason why computer manufacturers use powers of ten instead of powers of two is so they can sell 230 GB harddrives as if they were 250 GB. Ever wonder why your iPod isn’t 30GB but 27GB? Well, here you go.
and PS: @Dave, no it’s not because of formatting, it’s because of the difference between Gigabytes and Gibibytes. Consider yourself screwed.
and PS: @Dave: 800GB instead of 1000GB is not because of formatting, it’s because of the difference between Gigabytes and Gibibytes. Consider yourself screwed.
1024GB = 1 TB … its been like that for a while
you guys are such nerds, talking about terabytes, who really gives a $%*&?
oh and by the way, 1 MB, doesn’t equal 1000 bytes, it equals 1000 KB, 1 KB Equals 1000 bytes you nerds (blame Lee)
1 TB=1000 GB, 1 GB=1000 MB, 1 MB=1000 KB, 1 KB=1000 Bytes, 1 Byte=
8 bits, 1 Bit=WHO CARES?
Dell says that’s enough storage to keep a million photos, 16 days of DVD-quality video, or 1 million minutes of music.
http://www.circlesolution.net/computers/itb-desktop-drives-from-dell.review
You know, when you buy a storage device, its not exactly 1000 gigs or 1024 gigs, sometimes it can be 980, u never know, so guys stop crying and complaining like girls. The average size of a tb is 1000