Bill Gates once famously said that he couldn’t see anyone ever needing more than 250kb of memory in their home computer. He was, of course, wrong. In the multimedia world of online movies, TV shows, downloadable music, file sharing and intergalactic processing speeds, you need billions of kb worth of memory – which means you need 1tb hard drives.
1tb hard drives, unlike the clanking 12kb monsters that used to fill entire rooms in British military intelligence headquarters (the forerunners of the computer as you know it, of which Alan Turing, as famously as Bill Gates, once said that he couldn’t see why anyone would ever need one in their house), are sleek, light and easy to use. 1tb hard drives, you might say, are (in comparison to Turing’s behemoths) tiny. In memory terms, though, 1tb hard drives are massive. You used, like Bill Gates, to think in terms of kilobytes (kb); then you had megabytes (mb – 1000 kb); gigabytes (gb – 1000mb): now you’ve got terabytes, which, suitably mindbogglingly, represent 1MILLION megabytes. 1tb hard drives have a memory capacity equivalent to half a billion early computers.
1tb hard drives mean that your file storage capacities, for now at least, are virtually endless. You can store hundreds of films, thousands of albums and millions of pictures on them – and 1tb hard drives are pretty cheap, too, so making sure all your beloved multimedia doesn’t end up on a scratched CD-R somewhere is more than affordable. 1tb hard drives look great, too, often coming in space-age caddies with sexy little lights on them, hardback sized so you can fit as many 1tb hard drives as you need on a shelf above your PC. 1tb hard drives reduce the need for rooms full of 90 and 180 gigabyte hard drives: with 1tb hard drives, you can downsize your multimedia office nightmare to just a few slinky looking boxes perched next to your monitor. No more tripping over cables, accidentally unplugging half your memory from your PC and watching in horror as all that half-downloaded stuff just vanishes: a couple of 1tb hard drives and you’ll have the cleanest, least tripped-over-and-ruined media centre in your neighbourhood.
1tb hard drives don’t just save you the heartache of lost downloads, corrupted files and cluttered offices. If you use 1tb hard drives to boost your computer’s performance (and for as little as £40 that’s probably cheaper than speccing up the PC at build level), you’ll find ample room for all of those processes to run super-fast. 1tb hard drives can give you the operating speed necessary for instant streaming, proper music production, smooth multiple program operation and rapid downloads. So if you’re having problems keeping up with the virtual world’s increasingly pressing demands on your OS, you might want to think 1tb hard drives and give your poor PC a bit of a lift.
1tb hard drives – cheap, practical, and (memory wise) absolutely massive. Streamline your virtual life with one. You won’t regret it
