What is better: a 1TB hard drive, or a 500GB hard drive?

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I've never gotten anything before that used "TB", I've always seen gb. I had to get my computer sent back to Toshiba. I went to Micro center first so they could diagnose the problem and save my files. They called and they could save my files, but there were too many for a disc, so I needed an external hard drive. I went to pick up my files today, and because it was handled over the phone, they picked out the hard drive and such, which I'm fine with, but I was just wondering... I looked at external hard drives online and all that I saw were like, between 300-500GB. 

Is 1TB more or less?

Albert W · Accepted Answer

Hi There,

One terabyte is equal to two 500 gigabyte hard drives or ten 100 gigabyte drives.
Either one is quite large and would be fine.

The one terabyte probably would be considered "better" because can store twice as much data as the 500 GB drive.

Your 1 terabyte drive should be fine. You probably will never "fill it up".
Al

? · Answer

If your question is related to space, 1TB, otherwise you will need to check at the drive specifics speeds and transfer methods (such as SATA).

PETER · Answer

People will always fill up their HDDs. Wait till they start to download full length movies to play them back on their HD wide screens at real 3D BlueRay quality.

scrubbag · Answer

It is twice what you have now,  500Gb    Two of them make 1 Tb.

abaddono1 · Answer

1 TB is ~ 1000 GB

to all those who say you'll never fill it up... I'm upgrading from 7 TB to 12.5 TB next week...

Anonymous · Answer

1 terabyte is 1000 gigabytes.

Stuart H · Answer

1 1TeraByte  hard drive = 2 500 GigaByte hard drives

victor100 · Answer

1tb has so much space that you wont even use all in one life

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What is better: a 1TB hard drive, or a 500GB hard drive?

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