Giddy at the Reality of a 1TB Hard Drive

I admit it: I can't get enough storage. A religion? A compulsion? I don't know anymore. I have hard drives everywhere, and I can't resist the idea of more storage. (Two months ago, I saw 500GB hard drives on sale at for $150GB, no rebates, and I couldn't resist picking up a few. They're still in their boxes, waiting for me to pop them into my system.)

Digital pictures, video clips (I have gigabytes of excerpts from gymnastics competitions since the 1960s), pictures, music, data?.did I mention pictures (Nowadays, I shoot mostly RAW files . For me, my hard drive storage isn't just about not storing and organizing all of this stuff into some logical, consolidated morass that's accessible on my home network from both my desktop and my laptop--and eventually, my TV. It's also about backing up all of this stuff in some sort of redundant manner, so I can have peace of mind that my data will be there when I want it.

Already, I'm thinking about rejiggering how I will set up my home server, forever a work-in-progress, all because the 1-terabyte hard drive from Hitachi is now shipping. The possibilities seem endless--and suddenly, I'm thinking even bigger picture, like now might be a good time to set up a PC-based high-def DVR (too bad ReplayTV PC Edition software is standard-def only) to record the last 10 original episodes of Stargate SG-1 and future eps of Battlestar Galactica.

Hitachi offers up some fun facts about what you can store on a 1TB drive: 333,000 high-resolution, 3MB JPEG photos; 250,000 MP3s (at about 4MB apiece); about 250 hours of high-definition video--the equivalence of about 125 movies--encoded as 9 Mbps MPEG-4 video.

So what will you do with one terabyte of storage?

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