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Madtowntripper
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Terabyte Hard Drives
#7890629 - 01/16/08 10:01 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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I don't know, maybe you can call me a technology newb.
But it boggles my mind that you can walk into any computer supply store nowadays and buy a 1TB hard drive for $150.
This is really quite insane.
Thats all I have to say.
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Terabyte Hard Drives [Re: psyka]
#7890706 - 01/16/08 10:13 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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No doubt!
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The first 1TB drive I ever saw was the size of a washing machine, was just as heavy, and ran on a 220 volt 50 amp circuit. It was better balanced than a spinning washing machine though.
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Re: Terabyte Hard Drives [Re: Diploid]
#7890927 - 01/16/08 10:51 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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Arnt they more like 250 or 300? I just bought a few hard drives, maybe I got ripped off!
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Seuss
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Re: Terabyte Hard Drives [Re: Diploid]
#7891741 - 01/17/08 03:41 AM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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> The first 1TB drive I ever saw was the size of a washing machine
The first one I saw wasn't really a drive, but was an optical array that held thousands (upon thousands) of laserdisc sized platters. Each platter used optics to track, but magnetics to read/write (magneto optical drives). The machine, the size of several file cabinets, had a fairly large hard drive in it as well. When you requested data, it would load the correct platter into one of the available drives. The internal hard drive was then used to cache all the data served. The company's name was Epoch, I think. This was back in the early 90's when 20meg RLL hard drives were common.
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Re: Terabyte Hard Drives [Re: Seuss]
#7891901 - 01/17/08 06:51 AM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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yay for affordable backup!
Although its somewhat trivial, it would be cool if people posted their backup solutions. Not just data backup, but drive mirroring incase of viruses, etc.
I know diploid has a nice setup. One of you needs to make a thread =]
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Re: Terabyte Hard Drives [Re: tak]
#7891921 - 01/17/08 07:07 AM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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> it would be cool if people posted their backup solutions
My current system is pretty simple. I use rsync to backup important stuff hourly (via cron) to an external hard drive. I use a script to run dump (unix backup) once a day (via cron) to the external hard drive. I keep one weekly followed by six incrementals. At the start of each week, I exchange my external hard drive at home with my one at work, keeping at least one full week of backups off site. Although I overwrite the incrementals, I keep the weekly backups until I run low on external hard drive space.
My favorite system was built by network appliance (netapp.com). They used a RAID-4 write anywhere file system. (The only RAID-4 implementation I have ever seen. RAID-4 is like RAID-5, but with a dedicated parity disk rather than striping the parity and data across all disks in the array.) The file system would never overwrite old data unless it was low on disk space. Instead, it would link old versions of the files into a restore directory, organized by modification date. As long as there was disk space, you had a complete online backup/audit trail of every change ever made to every file on the file system. If you accidently delete something, just copy the deleted file from the /restore directory.
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Re: Terabyte Hard Drives [Re: Seuss]
#7892660 - 01/17/08 11:53 AM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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cost me I think £90 for my 2x500gb seagate barracudas.
Wow, I have a terabyte of storage! I've already used 70% of that.
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Quote:
Visionary Tools said: cost me I think £90 for my 2x500gb seagate barracudas.
Wow, I have a terabyte of storage! I've already used 70% of that.
Dang, i need to move into the modern era. I still have a 40 gig.
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Re: Terabyte Hard Drives [Re: Nephlyte]
#7893324 - 01/17/08 02:49 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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naturally holographic harddrives will eliminate the need for hard medium's such as cd's and what not.
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