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Yes, but how expensive is it? This 2TB drive was only $89 at Wal-Mart.
The first computer I owned outright (rather than using my parents') had 64 mb. Of hard drive.
Now, you can't even give that away -- even 1 GB USB drives are hard to get, more like 10 GB for a couple of bucks.
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It was too expensive but cheaper than 4 x $89. I didn't even consider getting it. Just pointing out that bit addicts don't have to worry about finding space for their bits, Moore's Law* is alive and well.
...the other morning I read that Seagate had developed a 10 TB sealed helium drive.
Talking bout 8TB made me curious so i went looking for all my folders (generation 3, generation 4 runtime folders, daz Studio my Library folder, Star Wars runtime folder)
I'm really sorry, but i can't tell you yet, he's still calculating... :)
Yeah thats a rather small thumbdrive
Many many years ago. Long before many of you were born I read a science fiction short-story that was in the form of a report about the demise of a galactic civilization due to the breakdown of their library system. They had devoted one whole planet as their library for the storage and retrieval of data. All the data of the entire galactic civilization was actually stored in a small cube of solid matter using a technique of "notched electrons". Unfortunately to find and access that information usefully they had to have a good indexing system. Then they built indexes to the index and more indexes on top of that and more on top of that. Then one day someone discovered a circular reference (A says "see B", B says "see C", C says "see D", ... W says "see A"). In order to resolve this problem they devoted more and more people to the problem until the entire planet is involved. I can't remember the title of the story or how far they went with devoting people and planets to the problem but eventually the whole civilization crashed.
Does anybody see the warning in this story?
I remember that story!
If I remember right, the story was from the standpoint of archaeologists on a planet, shaking their head at the data management of this ancient civilization. And, in the process, it seems their own data network had started to glitch.
Um... how about: you know you're a DAZ Addict when you look at your Connect available stuff and its got lots of Michael and Victoria 2 products in it.
That's the one.
The first hard disk I ever bought was an old Seagate ST225 -- 5-1/4", half-height, 20 MB; I got it for, if I recall, right at $200. And at the time, I thought I was sittin' in tall cotton!
About a month ago, I needed to upgrade/replace the 1 TB hard disk in my 3D laptop (the machine that I run my 3D apps on, and hosts my content libraries); it was about 80% full, and almost all of it was my 3D content. I got a 2-TB SATA, 2-1/2" laptop drive at Fry's, for $99.99 -- half the price, and 100,000 times the capacity!
Science marches on!
How do you make "sealed helium"? Let a seal breathe it? I bet it makes their honking sound like a door buzzer!
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That "beach ball" you see balanced on their noses? That's the helium-filled one they've just sucked a breath out of.
I'm never going to see a seal the same way again.
BTW, some hard drives aren't sealed, and apparently have air bearings. Which means if you have one in a laptop or back in the early days when they made the miniature drives you could put in a camera, those supposedly have the potential to fail on your high-altitude mountain climbing trips where there air is thinner.
Robert Rankin once did a variation on this in one of his novels. In order to manufacture item A his heroes needed item B which required item C which required item D and so on until an item was reached that required item A. As someone who has spent the last third of a century working for manufacturing companies, I found this tale rather amusing.
Cheers,
Alex.
Hi, I'm DzFire and I'm a DAZ-o-holic. I have been render free for about two minutes.