1.5 terabyte drives are already on the market, and can be purchased 
from online vendors like www.buy.com

Andy
At 10:09 PM 9/19/2007, you wrote:
>Above the terabyte there's the petabyte, the etabyte and the zettabyte.  My
>head is starting to hurt just thinking about those big numbers.
>
>As Bob has already stated, drives that big are still not readily available
>to us lowly folk.  If you want to know more about these fine numerical
>terms, try:
>http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/
>
>Richard Tomaszewski
>VE2 BRT
>
>By the way, our Canadian amateur radio licenses are normally good for life
>without the need for renewals.
>
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>From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:11 AM
>Subject: Off Topic: hard drives
>
>
> > Ok.  I know above gigabyte is the terabyte, or 1 trillion bytes.  I think
> > that's right.  So, is there something above terabyte and if so, what is
> > that
> > called?  Just curious.  Ham minds want to know.  Are such hard drive even
> > made above terabyte?  No, I'm not looking to buy one.
> >
> > Phil.
> >
> >
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