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[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 60 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Man, I remember when someone on reddit got mad upvotes for saying "5tb hard drives don't exist" in response to me, as the external 5tb hdd I was using sat 2ft away from me.

And here we are looking at the [BRAND] advertisement for 120TB drives.

[–] dumbass@lemy.lol 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Come on man, 120gb HDDs don't exist!

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, they don’t exist. (yet)

[–] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Do you mean "anymore"?

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember when I got my forst 120gb drive. I happily installed it on my win 2k and... bios didn't like it, OS didn't like it and read its capacity wrong. I forget if I used windows or linux but after I cut the drive into 2x60gb it worked great

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I was already sick of this shit the first time I saw a 1GB harddisk, a Quantum Bigfoot using a 5.25" form factor. Massive thing. Could fit a whole day of a comprehensive USENET feed.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure they were referring to how the more common sizes are 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12 TB and so on. 6 is semi-common. 5 is relatively rare, so they probably didn't realize they exist.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

And any 8TB disk with bad blocks makes a fine 5TB disk.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I own a couple of 5TB drives. At the time when 8TB and above were rare and expensive, it wasn't that strange.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Still rocking an Xbox one with a 4tb external drive. It's got to be going on 10 years old at this point