Acadia, just wanted to let you know two things.

1) You have several times written "tetrabytes". A tetra is a type of small fish, often kept in home aquariums. Terabyte - only has 2 t's, not 3. When you first asked, I honestly thought it was perhaps a new technical term, not a mispelling of terabyte. (Tetra in Greek means 4, so thought it was a 4-byte something perhaps.)

2) A terabyte used to be a huge enterprise-grade amount of storage. EMC corporation became a giant corporate presence selling terabyte storage systems, comprising hundreds or thousands of individual hard drives slaved to work together as one. Only 10 years ago, I remember getting one at work that was $50,000 US. The idea that you're going to put 1.5 TB in your PC, for the purpose of making pretty pictures, is astonishing to me. :-)

Today, EMC won't talk to you unless you're interested in petabytes. That's 1000 times a terabyte.

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