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Seagate’s new 8TB hard drive is the first of its kind
SlashGear.com ^
| 8/26/14
| Brittany Hillen
Posted on 08/26/2014 7:18:15 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: TomGuy
That is a 3Tb, not 4Tb, NAS (wifi) Western Digital HD.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:02:55 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: yarddog
I picked up a Del GX420 Optiplex at a yard sale recently.
I had 2 Gb of memory to plunk into it, along with a 250 Gb SATA drive.
Total cost? 20 bucks.
Not bad for a 2.8 Gh Pentium 4.
But it ain’t got a floppy!
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:04:43 PM PDT
by
djf
(OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
To: dfwgator
I seldom need more than 3 minutes
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:04:49 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi MomÂ…)
To: djf
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:06:34 PM PDT
by
djf
(OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
That’s a lot of 5 1/2” floppies.
To: Wingy
Only if you had that wonderful experience of programming in machine or assembly. Back in the day, that was all we had. Almost gave up on computers until basic came along and revised my sprite. LOL!
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:10:24 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: doc1019
When I started, we coded in 0s and 1s, and sometimes we didn’t even have the 1s.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:11:25 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: doc1019
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:12:37 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: dfwgator
ROFLMAO!!! Joke from the old days ... love it.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:13:33 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
That's putting a lot of your eggs in one basket!
But when they get cheap enough, they'd sure make for a nice RAID!
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:15:29 PM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: doc1019
I remember plonking down $1200 for my first 5MB hard drive, and thinking I’d be in the catbird seat for quite a long time. The number of 8” floppies that thing would hold was incredible, plus it was SOOO fast.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:20:16 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: kingu
WOW! What a layout. Back in the day I couldn’t begin to afford that. However, I can remember the old 8” disks and can also remember notching apposing sides of the old 5 1/4 disk so I could use both sides. When the 3 1/2 disks came out, you could drill a hole (don’t remember were) so you could use both sides.
Us poor folks hand to make due.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:30:01 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: Fungi
today, the move for home users is for these big storage drives to be in NAS boxes running mirrored for automatic back up (tho on-site)
combine that with a gigabit LAN and 256 SSD for local storage and you’ve got a nice, extendable setup
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:37:34 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: doc1019
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:45:16 PM PDT
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Seagate hard drives suck. They are some of the worst in the market. I can only imagine that their new 8TB HD sucks (crashes) AT LEAST 8 times as much as their 1TB drives.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:46:27 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: deadrock
I wish. If it were, several mill would be going into the support of FR rather than to support gun control.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:48:11 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: doc1019
Heck, I learned assembler because machine language on the MC6809 blew the doors off of Tandy Disk Extended Color Basic.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:48:19 PM PDT
by
DigitalVideoDude
(It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
To: DigitalVideoDude
I learned assembly because I was tired of creating 20K lines of code just to eject a floppy... which is about as far as my patients would take me. LOL!
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:57:32 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: doc1019
BTW, “640K is more memory than anyone will ever need on a computer” is a quote BG never said. He denies it. But you are on the record. lol.
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posted on
08/26/2014 9:02:48 PM PDT
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
It takes more than 1,000 days estimate to scan a 3T drive for bad blocks... So, that’s something that no longer gets done ....
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posted on
08/26/2014 9:05:46 PM PDT
by
MrsEmmaPeel
(a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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