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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by vidarh on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @12:42PM (#3730189)
My DVD collection includes about 3TB of data with no HD content... 60TB isn't that much.
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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by nknight on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @01:54PM (#3730566)
Your DVD collection uses the largely obsolete MPEG-2. DVD-quality video in h.264 is a fraction of the size.
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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by vidarh on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @11:54AM (#3734923)
But any new content I'm likely to acquire will not be DVD quality video. A backup of a Bluray takes up vastly more than a DVD.

Even my phone records video at a higher bitrate than most DVD's use, and my camera even more.

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