Comments on: Maxtor drive holds 1.8 million images

Company's next-generation SATA drive, which will have half a terabyte of memory, will ship this fall.

Maxtor

Hey hmm Maxtor I own 44,000+ shots on my drive allrdy.. I collect picutres of any thing just too see how many I can get. If u get a drive full of pics ship it my way>

Measuring storage space in images is ridiculous!

I realise that consumers often have no concept of raw storage capacity, and therefore manufacturers have to translate GB into "n images" or "n hrs of video" or "n DVDs"...

But rather amusingly (or perhaps that should be "confusingly") this article actually uses two different definitions of "image" in order to give an idea of the capacity of the drive. In the first instance it says that 1.8million 300KB "images" will fit on the drive's 500GB capacity (1800000*300/1024/1024 = 514), but it then goes on to say that 50,000 JPEGs (which are also "images", surely) will fit into 5GB, which means that each of these JPEG images is about 100KB (5*1024*1024/50000 = 105).

One can't help wondering why they don't decide on a single "standard" image size (as if there is such a thing, but they clearly want to pretend that there is), and why they don't pick the smaller 100KB size, which would allow them to claim that their 500GB drive holds 5 million images instead of a (mere) 1.8 million?!!!

Just my $0.02! ;)

[Earl Benser]

It's nice, but not impressive...

I'm already running several 300 GB hard drives on my computers,
with the main Mac having over 1.8 TB total drive space, and the #1
satellite Mac with a bit more than 1 TB. So a 500 GB drive isn't all
that exciting. I would have expected Maxtor or WD to be out with a
full Terabyte hard drive by now.