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Seagate’s new 8TB hard drive is the first of its kind
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| 8/26/14
| Brittany Hillen
Posted on 08/26/2014 7:18:15 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Brother Cracker
Wow, thank you!
I’m astounded that you - or anyone, for that matter - know that.
Sounds like you could store the entire Library of Congess on there and have enough spece left over for your email correspondence.
To: Fungi
I’ve had mixed performance but mostly good out of Seagate stuff. Western Digitals have done very well overall throughout the years. Maxtor is a brand I avoid.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:39:47 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
FReepers, Let's go!
Everyone needs to donate!
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:39:56 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: yarddog
I noticed a brand new Realistic 200 baud modem.
200 baud? Are you sure you don't mean 300 baud or 1200 baud? Even 150 baud was a standard for acoustic modems, but 200 just doesn't fit.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:41:08 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Thank you. Is it safe to say Seagate is furiously working on SSDs behind the scenes? I think so.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:41:38 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Fungi
They would be foolish not to.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:42:39 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Please $upport Free Republic.)
To: doc1019
And I remember when I thought my new 340mb HDD was all I would ever need. LOL! My first computer that I owned I bought used from a guy who only had it a few weeks. It was a Gateway 386 20Mhz with an amazing 16 MB of memory and featuring a 20 MB HDD. In the old days, DOS used to run a memory test on start up and the first time I turned on that baby, it literally buzzed through the memory test. I still remember how awesome it was!
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:44:16 PM PDT
by
BRK
To: Dr. Sivana
It probably was 300 as my memory is not that good anymore. It did seem like it said 200 but like I said.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:44:36 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I am seeing them hover around 50 cents a gig.. that’s not bad. I use a 120 or 256 gig SSD as my OS/program drive and large platter drives for storage. My old i5 really flies this way.
my last 120 gig cost me 50 bucks from new egg on sale with a coupon.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:45:01 PM PDT
by
cableguymn
(It's time for a second political party.)
To: rabidralph
Considering that my first computer was a Commodore 64 with a cheap cassette tape drive for saving my work, my brand new Packard Bell 286 with a 340mb hard drive (don’t remember how much ram) was the end all of computing ... never to be surpassed.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:45:30 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: Fungi
“Solid state will eventually rule, but when?”
From what I understand, SSD drives corrupt easily. Until that ‘glitch’ is fixed then we are stuck with electro-mechanical drives.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:45:49 PM PDT
by
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
(Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
To: Brother Cracker
A Terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica. You are correct, but it took me forever to scan them!
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Hope there are no Pestalotiopsis microspora spores lurking in those hard drives!
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:46:29 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: doc1019
I remember going from a 10 Mb HD to a 20 Mb HD and thinking how great it was to have all that storage.
Just 2 years later, 100-200 Mbs were common and necessary.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:47:15 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: wally_bert
Ive had mixed performance but mostly good out of Seagate stuff. Western Digitals have done very well overall throughout the years. Maxtor is a brand I avoid.
We are now down to two and a half hard drive companies. Seagate owns Maxtor. I believe WD owns Hitachis line (which Hitachi got from IBM). Samsung's HD line was also bought by one of them. Toshiba only plays in the small laptop drive space. I don't know what happened to Fujitsu.
I had the opposite experience from you with Seagate and WD. WD sent a LOT of bad drives in HP Vectras to Pratt and Whitney in the '90s. Many failed after a month or two. I swore off of WD, but tried them again about five years ago. The products changed. Wait a few more years, and try a Seagate or Maxtor labeled Seagate. You might be surprised.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:47:47 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Jack Hammer
Sounds like you could store the entire Library of Congess on there and have enough spece left over for your email correspondence. You could put the entire IRS's email communications on it and then recycle it for backfilling the hole for an underground nuclear test.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:48:08 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
To: doc1019
And I remember when I thought my new 340mb HDD was all I would ever need. LOL!Yep, I remember paying $750 for a 20 megabyte hard drive. My gal was mad because she said I would never fill it. She was right... Ahh, those were the days. Having to learn fortran because the program wouldn't work....
Geez. Am I officially an old fart now?
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:49:17 PM PDT
by
Wingy
To: cableguymn
About 2 years ago, I bought a 4Tb NAS (wifi) Western Digital for about $180 (IIRC).
Amazing drive.
My desktop recognizes it.
My laptop recognizes it.
My WD HD TV box connected to the widescreen TV recognizes it.
I have about 4,000 TV program files and maybe 100 movies and still have about 1.25Tb free space.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:57:13 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
My wife could fill it, She’s already max’d out a 3TB drive with thousands of religious sermon videos.
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:57:47 PM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
To: Jack Hammer
BTW- since 2000, The Library of Congress has archived websites related to a variety of themes and events
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posted on
08/26/2014 7:58:25 PM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
( Mossberg 500 helps me deal with being old and cranky)
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