Posted on 12/12/2005 3:38:43 PM PST by Pimpmygop
Maxell reportedly pledged to bring out a 300GB optical holographic disk system late next year. Will this finally be the affordable high capacity backup system we have been waiting for?
Apparently the drive will transfer at up to 20MB/sec - this means that 300GB data could be written in as little as 4 hours and ten minutes - however due to lead-in and other delays 5 hours is a more reasonable guess as to how long it will take to back up 300GB.
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And Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corp. said, "Why would everybody want a computer on their desk?" For those that don't know, DEC was big into timesharing systems with users using a dumb serial terminal. Straight text, no graphical interface, etc.
Where are you buying those? I just bought two 250 gig drives as Christmas presents for a hundred bucks apiece. Add $35 each for external enclosures and they're $135 apiece.
I actually would expect the RIAA to panic even more than the MPAA. Just imagine how many MP3's would fit on a disc; with high school kids swapping these things, who needs P2P networks? I can just see it now: the War on Portable Media(tm).
I'll be close to retiring, I hope. Then I can piss away even more time at my PC. Oh well, beats having a life.....[snicker]
3-D interactive games should be fun
Gosh I'm getting old! I remember when a 10 Megabyte, that's right a 10 MEGABYTE hard drive was around $4000.00 and weighed in at about 90 lbs!
We are living in wonderful times bros!
Aye but our games where only 1k-4k... so 10 megs was a monster.
It'd be nice if XP could handle mirrored disks.
Are you implying that it can't?
And 3d Hentai. Now I can be bored in three dimensions!!
Yes, if I'm wrong let me know (I'm referring to XP Home Ed).
I go back to Wolfenstein and earlier. Actually, I used to play CGA games from Apogee. Stranded on Mars, Paganitzu, etc., then moved up to Commander Keen and Cosmo. Still have them, but some just won't run under XP and these fast processors.
Vulcan Love Slave (One has to have watch Star Trek DS9 to understand this.)
I don't even discuss Windows XP Home. It's a pile of crap, and no, it doesn't support mirroring. But, XP Professional supports software-based disk mirroring.
Bringing this all up today, FOUR YEARS LATER http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/business-computing/27disk.html?_r=1
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