That is one monster collection of media.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Seagate 3TB hard drives are only available for external use at this point, so we can’t actually put them into our Storage Pods\u2014but we’re keeping an eye out. If you want one one of these drives for yourself, they’re $250 at Seagate. (Note that you need to be using a 64-bit OS to take advantage of all the space.)<\/p>\n
For my estimates, I’m assuming an HD movie is 3GB (as “Hot Tub Time Machine” on iTunes is when I just looked at it a second ago) and a photo or song is 3MB (as they are with a five megapixel camera and downloaded from iTunes, respectively).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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