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05/18/2007 05:02:12 AM · #51 |
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
Matthew I didnt have any issues ever until i moved into this house lol. |
Check that you moved into a house. If there is a temperature gauge on the outside, you might want to reconsider your options...
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05/18/2007 08:30:00 AM · #52 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Megatherian:
1tb single drives should be hitting the market very soon. |
LaCie has had a 1TB drive for $999 USD for over a year now, and I bought a Maxstor 1TB drive a few months ago -- with the rebate it ended up under $700 ...
What will be really interesting is when the 1+TB drives come in laptop drives ... |
that LaCie 1TB drive is $310 today at //www.ecost.com/ecost/search/search.asp?NavID_Search=false&CurDSN=simple&calledfrom=1&incimage=on&Search=1tb+hard+drive&submit1=find
2TB drives are about $700 //www.ecost.com/ecost/search/search.asp?NavID_Search=false&CurDSN=simple&calledfrom=1&incimage=on&Search=2tb+hard+drive&submit1=find
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05/18/2007 08:38:17 AM · #53 |
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05/18/2007 10:24:00 AM · #54 |
LMAO why can I see people trying this :P |
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05/18/2007 10:30:58 AM · #55 |
Makes sense to me. Hey, has anyone seen  RainMotorsports since that was posted?
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05/18/2007 12:59:09 PM · #56 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Makes sense to me. Hey, has anyone seen RainMotorsports since that was posted? |
heh you are on an evil roll today :P
THANKS I needed that
-dave |
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05/18/2007 01:09:45 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by _eug:
I can't believe I'm about to say this...
I can remember when 10 MB was considered impossible to fill.
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I remember when the first PCs came out with PC-DOS 1.0. They didn't come with hard disks, they came with a 5-1/4" floppy. If you were lucky, you would have two floppys (A & B).
You were the "big dog" on the block if you had a double-height (two bay) 5Mb hard disk. I believe these were "RLR" type of drives?
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05/18/2007 03:37:16 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by lesgainous:
Originally posted by _eug:
I can't believe I'm about to say this...
I can remember when 10 MB was considered impossible to fill.
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I remember when the first PCs came out with PC-DOS 1.0. They didn't come with hard disks, they came with a 5-1/4" floppy. If you were lucky, you would have two floppys (A & B).
You were the "big dog" on the block if you had a double-height (two bay) 5Mb hard disk. I believe these were "RLR" type of drives? |
Yup... You must be old too. lol My mother owned a secretarial service. At one point she bought a used Wang, with HUGE 8" or 12" floppies, I don't recall.
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05/18/2007 03:41:35 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by _eug:
At one point she bought a used Wang, with HUGE 8" or 12" floppies, |
Must ... hold ...back ... comment...
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05/18/2007 03:58:38 PM · #60 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by _eug:
At one point she bought a used Wang, with HUGE 8" or 12" floppies, |
Must ... hold ...back ... comment... |
OK Taking bets on how long fotomann_forever can resist :P |
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05/18/2007 03:59:51 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by dknourek:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by _eug:
At one point she bought a used Wang, with HUGE 8" or 12" floppies, |
Must ... hold ...back ... comment... |
OK Taking bets on how long fotomann_forever can resist :P |
$10 on not long enough.
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05/18/2007 04:03:38 PM · #62 |
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05/18/2007 04:50:33 PM · #63 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by _eug:
At one point she bought a used Wang, with HUGE 8" or 12" floppies, |
Must ... hold ...back ... comment... |
You are sick. That was funny now that you pointed it out.
But.....you're still sick :)
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05/18/2007 04:56:43 PM · #64 |
Alright, here they are...
External hard drives, 1TB and larger at Costco
And I confirmed what I said earlier that Western Digital has a 1TB external "MyBook" hard drive for $349.99.
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05/18/2007 04:58:32 PM · #65 |
Originally posted by lesgainous:
Originally posted by _eug:
I can't believe I'm about to say this...
I can remember when 10 MB was considered impossible to fill.
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I remember when the first PCs came out with PC-DOS 1.0. They didn't come with hard disks, they came with a 5-1/4" floppy. If you were lucky, you would have two floppys (A & B).
You were the "big dog" on the block if you had a double-height (two bay) 5Mb hard disk. I believe these were "RLR" type of drives?
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I remember when computers had the little external 'cassette deck' drives. :-) Anyone else old enough to remember those?
And...when I was just a little kid, I remember my Dad worked in Chicago for the big FTD offices, they had a computer. It took up like 3 floors in a big downtown building! The 'discs' were about the size of manhole covers, and were stacked up in these 6 ft tall enclosures, and were like dozens of them in this huge room. And all it did was spit out these little cards with holes punched all over them! |
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05/18/2007 05:16:32 PM · #66 |
Originally posted by taterbug:
I remember when computers had the little external 'cassette deck' drives. :-) Anyone else old enough to remember those?
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... and the monitor was an old B&W TV and to write on both sides of the floppy you had to notch out the other side.
Apple II Plus - $2400 with no monitor and no drive of any sort.
edit: forgot one thing, that was with 64K of RAM.
Message edited by author 2007-05-18 18:14:01. |
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05/19/2007 04:02:15 PM · #67 |
Originally posted by _eug:
Originally posted by lesgainous:
Originally posted by _eug:
I can't believe I'm about to say this...
I can remember when 10 MB was considered impossible to fill.
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I remember when the first PCs came out with PC-DOS 1.0. They didn't come with hard disks, they came with a 5-1/4" floppy. If you were lucky, you would have two floppys (A & B).
You were the "big dog" on the block if you had a double-height (two bay) 5Mb hard disk. I believe these were "RLR" type of drives? |
Yup... You must be old too. lol My mother owned a secretarial service. At one point she bought a used Wang, with HUGE 8" or 12" floppies, I don't recall. |
Just some trivia from the old days
That "double-height" hard disk was the standard size for floppy drives also...which is why the normal drive is sometimes called "half-height".
I never saw a 12" floppy, but used 8" ones on a PDP-11 and a Micro-VAX.
The first hard drive I saw came in 5 and 10MB sizes, and was the size of a shoebox. It was extremely sensitive to shock and vibration, even when turned off. this was a Winchester drive, which came as a sealed unit (the head spacing to the disk was smaller than a particle of dust, and the heads would have been damaged by dust or smoke). There were much larger hard drives available, but they used removable platters.
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05/19/2007 04:04:52 PM · #68 |
Originally posted by hankk:
Just some trivia from the old days
That "double-height" hard disk was the standard size for floppy drives also...which is why the normal drive is sometimes called "half-height".
I never saw a 12" floppy, but used 8" ones on a PDP-11 and a Micro-VAX.
The first hard drive I saw came in 5 and 10MB sizes, and was the size of a shoebox. It was extremely sensitive to shock and vibration, even when turned off. this was a Winchester drive, which came as a sealed unit (the head spacing to the disk was smaller than a particle of dust, and the heads would have been damaged by dust or smoke). There were much larger hard drives available, but they used removable platters. |
Last i remember (im only 21) The winchester drives used an airfoil design platter with a floating head. When the disk spun it caused the head to float over it.
The design by nature makes it really sensitive to damage. |
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05/19/2007 04:29:08 PM · #69 |
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
Last i remember (im only 21) The winchester drives used an airfoil design platter with a floating head. When the disk spun it caused the head to float over it.
The design by nature makes it really sensitive to damage. |
All hard drives float the head on the cushion of air that gets dragged along with the rotating disk surface. Fly height on modern drives is also very small, and filters are in place on the vents to exclude particulates that might cause a head "crash." Assembly is done in clean-room environments.
The increased shock resistance of modern drives is mainly due to the dramatically lower mass of the read-write head and cantilever arm. That, in turn, is due in part to the much smaller size of the arm (smaller drive platters), but also to design and material improvements in the cantilever and miniaturization in the head and associated electronics (lower mass).
Edit:
I worked with 400MB removable-platter drives in the early 1980s that had about a dozen platters, each about 12 inches (200mm) in diameter. The drive itself was a floor-standing unit on casters, about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall.
Message edited by author 2007-05-19 16:31:07. |
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05/19/2007 04:59:58 PM · #70 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Edit:
I worked with 400MB removable-platter drives in the early 1980s that had about a dozen platters, each about 12 inches (200mm) in diameter. The drive itself was a floor-standing unit on casters, about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall. |
I've been looking for a HD that would double as a coffee table :-D
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05/19/2007 05:10:29 PM · #71 |
| i have a film editor friend that backs her stuff up on Bytecc externals and has never had a problem. so that's what i got. so far so good |
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05/19/2007 05:14:47 PM · #72 |
Originally posted by suiteness:
i have a film editor friend that backs her stuff up on Bytecc externals and has never had a problem. so that's what i got. so far so good |
I've look at their stuff before and talk about cheap construction...
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05/19/2007 05:42:55 PM · #73 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Edit:
I worked with 400MB removable-platter drives in the early 1980s that had about a dozen platters, each about 12 inches (200mm) in diameter. The drive itself was a floor-standing unit on casters, about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall. |
I've been looking for a HD that would double as a coffee table :-D |
Vibrations can cause your cups to slide to the floor.
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05/19/2007 05:43:57 PM · #74 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Edit:
I worked with 400MB removable-platter drives in the early 1980s that had about a dozen platters, each about 12 inches (200mm) in diameter. The drive itself was a floor-standing unit on casters, about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall. |
I've been looking for a HD that would double as a coffee table :-D |
One which matches your CD tray/cup-holder? |
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05/20/2007 04:19:48 PM · #75 |
Someone I knew had one of the old 12 inch floppies, and we had convinced one of the new IT gradulates it was the next newest thing.
LOL
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