Posted on 08/26/2014 7:18:15 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
He also said that the internet was just a fad.
Must. Have. This.
Though, umm, I think the hole drilling was to tell some drives that it was a double density 3.5 rather than a single density (170kb to 340kb, or something similar to that..) It was, IIRC, before the 740kb and 1.44mb discs came out. Couldn't do it to flip the disc over (first problem is that there wouldn't be anything to move the gate out of the way to reach the media that way..)
You might (and probably are right) in the double density thingy. I just remember reading it somewhere and trying it ... after I found it to be true, everyone wanted me to take their disks home and repeat my success. Spent several weekends drilling disks. LOL!
2000 dvd’s or over 300 blue-ray’s per drive. Also, you don’t just buy one, you buy multiples and then raid them. So a massive amount like 250 days of video would be easy to do at dvd quality, maybe even more depending on codex.
that reminds me, I have an RMA sitting on my desk that I need to send out.
I think he meant a “Realistic 2400” modem and you are correct on the math.
300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600 - 54000 baud modems.
LOL!
first one I heard was given to me by a customer General Electric in 1984.
It was a 300 baud suitcase modem and they used it to connect to something they called a BBS.
The fellow who gave it me showed me how to use it.
I took it back to our office and we played with it for a week before putting on a history shelf.
I found out what all those dorks with Commodore s and TI’s where wasting so much time with.
Amazingly, porn is still the number one time waster.
Seagate, like Toshiba is in the SSD market but, they already have a huge installed base of customers to support.
Toshiba recently bought an SSD supplier for the technology and their pipeline of customers.
Look for others to do the same.
Word has it there will be a pretty kewel product from Sandisk soon and then it’s no more 8” floppies....
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When they finally figure out how to keep the innards from croaking after too many read/write cycles.. ;-)
Take a look at the current Mac notebook line. They all have SSDs, except for the 13" MBP, which comes with either a 5400-rpm hard drive or a 512gb SSD.
If the SSD write-endurance glitch were still an issue, I highly doubt Apple would be converting their product line to SSDs.
Recently, while browsing in the local Apple Store, I timed a reboot of a MacBook Air with a 1.8ghz processor and an SSD vs a MacBook Pro with a 2.5ghz processor and a hard drive. The MacBook Air was about four times as fast from reboot to usable desktop.
WD now offers their NAS (wifi) drive in 6T capacity for $349.00. I have a 4T and it is full of TV programs so I guess I will have to get another or move up to the 6T.
It is cheaper to get a cheap raid box and stuff a couple 4T drives in it than it is to get the 8T drive.
Big drives require big backup drives, I have a Drobo 5N with 5, 4T drives in it, one failed last week and it took about a week to repair itself, now have to replace the bad drive.
My first hard drive was a 5 meg that I bought used for $400.00, bear in mind that a 400 k floppy was about $400.00 at the time. My first 1 gig drive I paid about $750.00 as I recall, now a Terabyte drive is 1000 times more capacity and can be had for less than $60.00.
Not nearly enough!
I am using Windows 8.1 on an SSD. Love it. Best computer experience I have ever had, period, except for the Windows 8.1 part.
I probably won’t remember to catch back up with you if it corrupts.
But so far, I am thrilled.
YMMV.
I’ve never had a problem with a Seagate drive. Sorry that you have issues.
Bigger, better, faster...
You need a bigger scanner
I don't believe SSD is ever going to kill HDD, but there are scenarios today where it is more cost effective to use SSD.
Not matter how big you make that SATA HDD, it's only going to be able to do about 150 reads/writes per second. Ever. We're topped out. So if you need 150,000 read/writes per second, you need 1,000 of those drives, regardless of how much actual data you have to store. Factor in the cost of all those drives, the power and cooling to maintain them, and SSD is probably MUCH cheaper because you don't need to buy anywhere near 8,000 TB of them. [Yes, I know, you wouldn't use SATA here, but the concept is the same].
Also, the inherent latency in HDD gives an SSD based system time to do dedupe/compression. If SSD costs 8x HDD, but an application like VDI can dedupe at 10x, it's actually cheaper per GB to go with SSD.
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