Indeed it was.....
Still, I think that the average consumer will never need 1TB of storage on their computer. I think it will be more of a selling point on new computers when they start to ship with these large 1TB drives more than anything. But of course next year by mid year we'll probably be seeing these same drives that are going to sell for $399 down to about $250 or so.
Im waiting on the next generation drives which have no moving parts and are all solid state I believe, I read an article a while back about one of the drives that is up to 32GB and it uses all chips to store it's data. I'd pop for one of those when they reach 100GB if they were affordable as it would eliminate a lot of worry about corruption of the data due to mechanical error (like a head striking a platter) and they are supposed to be faster and don't put off the heat that our current drives put off.
Although I found that by adding one more 120mm fan to my new case I was able to drop the CPU temperature from around 114f down to about 75 to 85f when idle. It also keeps my video card running cooler, Im guessing because of where I placed it in the case, it really helps to exhaust out the hot air from both the CPU and the video card.
On the other hand my case has one of these side door CPU intake tubes that is supposed to allow the cooler outside air to be sucked in by the CPU fan to cool it better but what I found was that it increased the temps on my CPU by about 10 to 20f So I just removed it.
Anyway, Im looking forward to the new solid state non mechanical drives whenever it is that they come out, from what I understand they are too expensive for the consumer market right now (as well as too little storage space).
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