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Originally Posted by amateurrobotguy
When would you ever need terabytes or exabytes of information to be stored. If you need that much, you need some serious counseling. This is probably what the nerd would look like(See Pic)
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Not necessarily . I remember when I thought installing a game that was 400 megs (Descent III) was completely huge. Now I toss around 400 Meg files like water. A common rule of thumb: If you have the space you will fill it. For example, 1 hour of Digital Video equals about 13 GB.
For some interesting numbers on size of digital audio and digital video:
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What about capturing your fav TV Shows in High Def? or backing up your DVD collection to your hd? You could easily use up a lot of space!