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To: NoCmpromiz

I got a 256GB thumb drive at a pretty good price. You can get 3TB drives for a song these days (well, a relative song). No sense putting important stuff on old hardware.

I can remember when 40MB was a very large Hard Drive and an unimaginable amount of RAM.


97 posted on 07/24/2017 1:54:31 PM PDT by ArGee (What do you do when psychosis is not just acceptable but legally mandated?)
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To: ArGee
Noted the eBay price on a 3tb (about $65). Main drive is 2tb, and failed one is 1tb. Debating on whether to get another 1tb for cheap or spend the approximate $15 more and get a 3tb. Two WinDoze backups from now it will be nagging me about no space on the small drive so I have that long to figure out a plan of action.

The 2tb main drives (main and data) are what they classed as 'enterprise grade' but the failed one was just your common drive and was the data drive from the previous build so it had some operating hours on it.

Way back when in the days before MS-DOS 5 my office machine had a gigantic 15mb hard drive and monstrous 640mb of ram. (The machine actually had DOS 3.3 but I couldn't find a catchy video for it.. ;-)

99 posted on 07/24/2017 4:35:33 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: ArGee; NoCmpromiz

I have a 3T slave that essentially contains everything I have written, seen or gotten from someone else. Periodically, I send stuff there, in the event of a crash in the laptop. Which has happened too much to be a coincidence.


108 posted on 07/25/2017 4:09:46 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm not an early bird or a night owl. I'm some form of permanently exhausted canary.)
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