Hitachi’s New 1TB Hard Disk and 250GB USB-Powered Portable Disk

The 250GB USB-powered disk is $250. There is no price out yet for the 1TB external hard-disk. I think that 250GB is more than enough for my 80GB collection. I have no use for the 1TB disk, for now. I would only take up 8% of the 1TB space with my current collection. By the time I reach to the point in time when my collection requires 1TB, a few years will have passed and this 1TB disk would be obsolete.

So just how much will 1 TB of music files is, really? Some quick and rounded math provides these figures:

• 20,833 Hours of Music
• 868 Days of Music
• roughly 2 years and 4 Months of Continuous Music without repeating a single song.

* Assuming 1GB is about 250 Songs and each song is about 5mins.