Looks like 750GB is the new 500GB.

that would be reasonable, now that the 1 TBs are really competing on price...

When the 750GB will be the new 500GB when the price drops to $100...

How many people are actually coming close to filling up a 750GB hard drive on their personal PC?

Definitely not a deal, I found a 400GB solid state tape drive for the low low price of $4,031!!!

can be found here!
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10403157&listingid=5027733&dcaid=17902

Nice. I'm putting this on my MacBook Air.

#4, I've got a RAID 5 of 4 750s and it is completely full....

Well, HD video streams are 9GB/hour and raw images from high end cameras are 12MB, so that's easy to fill.

Eventually someone's gonna have to come up with something better than the hard drive to store all the data we as a society are collecting. Or, at least make hard drives at a fraction of the size they're at today. Otherwise, we're all going to be sitting around with basements full of boxes of 'x' TB hard drives, trying to shuffle through them to find the one with that one movie/show we want to watch on it. I have faith that within a few years, we will be capable of mass storage on much smaller than 2.5" HDs.

Perhaps someday soon.. here's one of the more recent efforts on three dimensional storage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11storage.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

It looks like Newegg got a bad batch looking at their last ratings.

#4... do not underestimate the amount of **** a single college student can collect

#5, that's a *real* tape drive, not a solid-state tape drive. And yes, tape still has a very important place in the business world.

It should be used for more home users than it is. Think about it -- you've got your disks spinning, using electricity all the time. If it's running, it's generating heat, which is a problem in many homes. Can't unplug them for long, because a disk that just sits is subject to bit rot. And if your disk is inside your computer or next to it, the fire or thief or earthquake or flood or virus or angry soon-to-be-ex that takes out your computer is likely to take out your "backup" disk too.

But you put that data on tape... and you can move it off-site and store it for years without worry or any significant energy cost, little worry about both system and backup vanishing at the same time.

IT COMES OUT ONLY WITH 698 GIG...

#15.. Please don't be a noob like the many reviewers on newegg. For years, the standard for hard drives has been to advertise data capacity in terms of 1000 and not 1024.

750 advertised GB is actually 750 billion bytes. Divide that by 1024 three times and you get the correct amount of true gigabytes. (Wow, its comes out to 698.49 GB!) Surprise Surprise! No, the hard drive manufacturers aren't ripping you off as they are all on the same standard.

#4: I've got a 750, and two 500's in my HTPC which I could fill easily. I've also got a 750 and a 250 in my main machine which are mostly full. For those that collect high def video (or pron for some people) there is no amount of disk space that won't be filled up eventually.

I understand your point #14, and have a 20GB Seagate tape drive. But that's not useful for me any more. And have you priced tape drives lately? My current strategy is redundant hard drives and DVDs stored offsite. But I wonder about the shelf life of the DVDs, so a complete image is called for every few years, incremental backups in between.

#4, I got a DCR on my computer I could fill it up in one week.

#16, thanks for playing the part of TOOL in #15's play...I am sure he is happy with your portrayal of a rube that cannot identify sarcasm even when written in all caps.

#19
Sorry, didn't detect any sarcasm. If he was attempting to be sarcastic, he did a piss poor job of it. More than likely he's just an uninformed noob.