Terabyte

Internode Joins The 1TB Plan Brigade… Without Off-Peak Times

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11:10AM September 6, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Realistically, 1TB of data is probably more than any one person could ever consume in a month. But all the 1TB plans we’ve heard about so far are actually more like two 500GB plans stapled together depending on when you’re using the net. But not with Internode’s new 1TB plan, which does away with the pesky notion of “off-peak”. More »


iiNet Offers Terabyte Plans To NBN Customers

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3:31PM August 20, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Right now, I wish I was living in Tasmania. iiNet has just announced that their 1TB plans announced this week are available to their NBN customers, with the added bonus of 100Mbps speeds until June 2011. And for the same price as everyone else pays for ADSL2+ speeds, no less! More »


TPG Brings 1TB Plans To The Market Too

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10:30AM August 20, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Terabytes seem all the rage these days. First iiNet, then iPrimus, and now TPG – by way of the Whirlpool forums – have announced 1TB data plans for ADSL2+ connections. Who’s excited? More »


Entertainment

Hitachi Drops Acid, Explains Terabyte Hard Drives In Crazy Cartoon

1:20AM July 23, 2008 | John Mahoney

It’s always great when companies break out of their stodgy PR molds and just go for it–remember those fantastic tokusatsu Norton Fighter ads? Here we have Hitachi, no strangers to the out-of-the-box viral video, ushering us all into the “Tera Era,” a magical wonderland of smiling flowers, talking bytes, hard disk actuator suns, and catchy Schoolhouse Rock jingles. The juxtaposition of traditional PR-speak on their YouTube page which looks like a clown threw up all over it (“This amazing collision of Capacity, Content and Culture”) and this video, which is just another kind of PR-speak, is still pretty incredible. Check out the original “Get Perpendicular” spot for comparison below.

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Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000B is Power Efficient 1TB Drive, Has Encryption Too

3:00AM July 11, 2008 | Kit Eaton

About a year ago we brought you the first retail terabyte HDD, the Deskstar 7K1000, and now Hitachi has released the Deskstar 7K1000.B. And Hitachi’s worked quite hard on it: With a 32MB buffer and a three-disk layout, it’s apparently the “world’s most power-efficient 1TB drive” and consumes about 43% less power when idling. And for those of you who think “bleh” to the power savings, it also has built-in encryption, which Hitachi says doesn’t impact on read/write speeds at all. Out soon for US$279, which puts it in competition with the Samsung HD103UJ. [Hitachi and BoingBoing Gadgets]

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