1TB Wireless Hard Drive

Gone are the days of measuring external hard drive capacity with gigabytes (GB).  Or at least the days are seemingly numbered.  With today's external disc drives measuring 1 terabyte (TB) and more you can see why.  A terabyte is about 1,000 gigabytes (1,024 to be exact) and renders many of your storage issues moot.  To put into perspective how much memory 1 TB of disk drive capacity is, let's compare how many common household computer files it will hold.  Nearly every person in the USA has a digital camera these days.  And since the price has come down so precipitously, a 10 megapixel camera is pretty standard fare these days.  When taking pictures with a 10 megapixel camera each picture requires about 4 MB of memory.  If you were to fill up a 1TB wireless hard drive with only pictures from your 10 megapixel camera you would need to 250,000 pictures.  That is a lot of snapping and downloading!  Suffice it to say, unless you are a professional photographer you are not likely to have anywhere near this many photos (and yes I am including you new parents that take outrageously too many pictures of their kids and newborns much like I did when they were young).

How about another common household file, the mp3 or similar music file.  In general these files take up a similar space as a 10 megapixel picture, maybe slightly less.  If we can assume a song will take up approximately 3 GB that would equate to about 333,000 songs.  I know that most people have impressive CD/music collections, but it likely will not compare to those number of songs!

But really where the 1TB wireless hard drive comes in handy is with movies.  It is becoming increasingly common for people to digitize their DVDs, BlueRays and the like to their hard drives.  Given the exploding capacity hunger that these file types require, it really becomes clear why the move to terrabyte is so pronounced.  The average DVD is about 8 GB in size, and therefore you can store about 128 DVD to your 1 TB hard drive.  That is a lot of DVDs, but I know lots of people that have plenty more than that.  However, when looking at BluRay discs, the story changes entirely.  A 1 terrabyte drive only hold approximately 20 BluRay movies.  That is a surprisingly low number.  If you own a BluRay player, odds are you had that many discs in only the first 2 months, let alone the next year and so on.

1 TB sounds like an astronomical number until you consider the voracious appetite of today's file types and then it becomes clear why a move to a 1TB wireless hard drive is a good move for the technologically savvy consumer.