[Stealth]

Originally posted by aldo_14
A Terabyte probably isn't that much in terms of mass storage i.e. archiving.  I belive that the attempt to back up the US national library of congress (or something similar - national library, anyways) onto digital takes up multiple terabytes.  And that's excluding backups.

For high-performance rendering, i.e. CGI, I'd imagine a similarly huge amount of memory is required per film.

yeah, but it seems this product is geared more toward the home user.  i'm sure the government has tools like this readily available to them as soon as they're developed.

and even ONE terabyte is a HELL of a lot for a regular home user.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Thinking in volumes of TB's almost validates that noob term 'I'm going to go download the internet'.
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[Tiara]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Thinking in volumes of TB's almost validates that noob term 'I'm going to go download the internet'.
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Not by a LONG shot. One single average DC hub alone has about 5 TB. Thats about 100 average DC users. And the Internet is WAY bigger then all DC hubs combined.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stealth


yeah, but it seems this product is geared more toward the home user.  i'm sure the government has tools like this readily available to them as soon as they're developed.

and even ONE terabyte is a HELL of a lot for a regular home user.

Well, as time progresses the home user will require greater and greater storage for their vast collection of po... gentlemans reading material.

[01010]

Originally posted by aldo_14


Well, as time progresses the home user will require greater and greater storage for their vast collection of po... gentlemans reading material.

Wait, what? You can read it?

Wonders never cease in this marvellous day and age.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Stealth
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and even ONE terabyte is a HELL of a lot for a regular home user.

I can hardly fill my 40 GB hard drive. Shall I invest into a 1 Terabyte HD?

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by TopAce


I can hardly fill my 40 GB hard drive.  

There is something wrong with you, sir.

[Thorn]

Originally posted by TopAce


I can hardly fill my 40 GB hard drive. Shall I invest into a 1 Terabyte HD?

Give it to me then, and you can have my old 12 GB
I'm scrounging for space with the 40 total I have...

[Tiara]

I got a 80 GB and a 40 GB drive. And still a lack of space. Thankfully I just got a laptop with 80 GB space

Thats what I get for downloading the entire series of ST DS9, TNG, Stargate, etc etc

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I have 40 gigs of HDD space devoted to SG1 until I can get a bunch of blank DVD-R's.
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[Ghostavo]

meh...

3x120GB HDD's...

recording DVD's and CD's daily....

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Stealth
iiiiiii

... highly doubt that

Well, let's do some calculations:

Doom II (1994) took 20 megabytes of HD space. Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004) grabbed 5500...

5500/20 = 275
5500 * 275 = 151250

That's 151 gigabytes for a top-end game in 2014. Holy Jesus.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Sandwich
I like it:
[q]August 11, 2004...
...Today's PC has on average 64 megabytes of cache and 20 to 60 gigabyte hard drives.[/q]

If cache = system memory, I have 512 MB (the only cache I'm really familiar with is the one for my browser). Plus 60 gigs of HD space.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


Well, let's do some calculations:

Doom II (1994) took 20 megabytes of HD space. Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004) grabbed 5500...

5500/20 = 275
5500 * 275 = 151250

That's 151 gigabytes for a top-end game in 2014. Holy Jesus.

You should realize that Unreal Tournament 2004 was able to bring more advancaments to Doom 2, but the a future game won't be able to provide anything new compared to Unreal Tournament 2004, only graphics and a couple of half-clone ideas. Even the graphical changes won't be as significant as they were in the case of Doom 2 and UT2004.

As I promised yesterday, I rephrased it.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I don't think games will go that way Woolie, there's only so much the eye can make out thus it's more likely that effects, which require more processing power will improve and models to a point.

Textures and videos are what's taking up most of today's game volume and as everyone is aware you can get near DVD quality vids using DivX/XviD and texture compression is improving too.
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[Stealth]

Woolie:  That's assuming games increase in size year by year, at a constant.  which is not true.

if anything, game size will decrease as new technology is developed and improved that will allow the game to run at its potential, but not taking GBs of space.

[Tiara]

We'll end up with terabyte hard drives and highly compressed multi-MB sized games MORE ROOM FOR PR0N!!!!1111oneoneoneone

Seriously, I wanna see the day that we can create graphics that can't be distinguished from real objects

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Tiara
Seriously, I wanna see the day that we can create graphics that can't be distinguished from real objects

We already can with current software, we just dont have the hardware to do it in real time.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Tiara
We'll end up with terabyte hard drives and highly compressed multi-MB sized games MORE ROOM FOR PR0N!!!!1111oneoneoneone

Seriously, I wanna see the day that we can create graphics that can't be distinguished from real objects

[color=66ff00]More to the point, I wonder what kind of pr0n you keep on your HDD?
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[Bobboau]

well she is in holand, so there are a lot of posabilities