Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have here, an announcement to make: I have one terabyte now.

Here’s what 1TB looks like:

Here’s what’s in the pic:

1. WD My Book Essential Edition - 320GB
2. Buffalo Drive Station - 500GB
3. WD Passport - 120GB
4. WD Passport - 160GB
5. My laptop - 250GB
6. Core Python Programming - lots of gigabytes of knowledge
7. Total = 1350GB + lots of gigabytes of knowledge

I got for myself a 500GB Buffalo DriveStation (because the 500 GB WD MyBook Studio Edition/Home Edition that I wanted bloody went out of stock). Then again, Buffalo is good, especially in their network storage solutions. But the MyBook looks way better. I also got myself a 120GB WD Passport for backing up the mobile essentials. The 320GB WD MyBook and 160GB WD Passport are for Kelsey and Alan.

I admit, I’m a little slow in getting on to the terabyte bandwagon (cfgt reached it middle of last year), but if you count the amount of dead hard disks I own, it’d reach 1TB about a year ago (2 broken 250GB hard drives, and 2 broken 160GB hard drives and one running 250GB hard drive as of January 2007 + a few older 40GB, 60GB hard drives that was thrown out long ago…)

As of current, I have 1.12 terabytes of live storage capacity (2×250GB + 1×500GB + 1×120GB). How much of that 1.62 terabytes have I used? Let’s just put it this way: 5 hours after acquiring my 500GB external hard drive, I have roughly 300GB left of it. Heh. I regret not buying the 1TB external hard drive. But as of now, I have roughly 650-700GB of free space left.

Here’s more trivia about me and hard drives:

• I use only Western Digital hard drives since 2006 (started using since 2004, but not exclusively WD)
• I had too many broken hard drives from other brands.
• Quantum - 1 dead Fireball (1.5 years - 40GB)
• Maxtor - 2 dead hard drives (after 1 year intensive use each, the newer 250GB one died after 1.5 years)
• Seagate - one 250GB dead after 6 months of use. Confusion over warranty (stop buying over LYN!), so no RMA. Chucked it away.
• WD is reliable.
• I like WD.
• Inside my Buffalo case is a Western Digital Caviar.
• IBM is ridiculously expensive for the same amount of reliability (and warranty) of Seagate. The guys at IBM never heard of the phrase ‘value for money’
• The day before I acquired my new hard drives - I had 700MB of free space left.
• Reason for me using so much disk space: I’ve never heard of detest compression.
• All my videos that I made are in raw files, so are all the pictures I take, and all the music I make.
• I look forward to the repeat of 2004, where I asked cfgt and u238 - “How the hell did we live with 10GB in 1999?”
• Maybe 5 years from now, I’ll ask: “How the hell did I live with only 1TB of HDD space?”
• Maybe I’ll get a NAS (heh, or build one) soon.

So.. what am I going to do with this sudden glorious amount of space? Fill it with J-doramas and anime!

p.s: Why is there no ‘convert’ option in Vista’s GUI? If you want to convert your hard disk from FAT32 to NTFS, go to command prompt and type “convert [drive letter]: /fs:ntfs /nosecurity”. Windows idiocy. Bleh.

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