Not necessarily an innovation for which the time has come, is my thinking. I’m sure there are individual cases where a machine like this would be useful, but they would likely be more in the lines of a portable desktop system that can be secured physically, etc.

Given the failure rate of hard drives which, at the end of the day, are simply highly-stressed mechanical devices, I can’t imagine many operations where I’d want that much data in one drive. You could lose the whole galaxy in a serious crash, or in a theft. I’d want a Raid 1 array, at least. Even at that, you’d have to back up constantly if you’re crunching data that actually requires that kind of physical memory.

Not very many people are going to be willing to deal with a laptop moving all that energy (read: heat and battery time) unless it’s really important, which makes security paramount. And moving the data would require a bunch of processor, too — more heat. Perhaps not this month.

It would be more logical to just have an External Drive, regardless of whether it’s for backup, or just storage of your media files. External Drives are pretty portable these days, so why wouldn’t you have one?