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Big Drives Any One
I have managed saved a big IBM Mainframe drive from the crushers.
I stands aprrox 2 feet high x 1 foot wide x 2 feet long, and is f*cking heavy. It has its own built in steel carrying handles, and a platter "lock" attached (Stops the idiots who look at it from trying to spin the platters)
You can see the platters in the perspex cage, and it requires a seperate electric motor attached via belt drive.
If I remember correctly, it will hold 200MB
Apparently cost the earth to replace - I remember something like R150K in 1992, when one crashed.
Apparently for its time, they had very low transfer rates when compared to novell 2.0a FileServers running state of the art Novtel (who ever heard of wintel) Servers
I have managed saved a big IBM Mainframe drive from the crushers.
I stands aprrox 2 feet high x 1 foot wide x 2 feet long, and is f*cking heavy. It has its own built in steel carrying handles, and a platter "lock" attached (Stops the idiots who look at it from trying to spin the platters)
You can see the platters in the perspex cage, and it requires a seperate electric motor attached via belt drive.
If I remember correctly, it will hold 200MB
Apparently cost the earth to replace - I remember something like R150K in 1992, when one crashed.
Apparently for its time, they had very low transfer rates when compared to novell 2.0a FileServers running state of the art Novtel (who ever heard of wintel) Servers
At that time I bought a computer with a 40MB HD. The HD must have cost about R1000 of the price of the PC. I'm wondering why a drive 5x the size
cost 150 times more.
The other issue with HD's is the transfer rate. On SATA to SATA I get about 30MB/sec transfer sustained, which isn't very good. A FW800 SATA RAID 0 I have achieves a bit better but its a RAID 0 array. What we need is SCSI performance in 500GB to 1TB sizes at affordable prices.
That's a lot of porn dude.
Neo_X
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Sigh.. me runs back for a refund for my 12x500's
6x 1TB's..... nice xmas box. other wise it would have cost you like R18k?
Nice setup labanimal. So when are you sponsoring me some?
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Well, not everybody will find a way to use it though. Business users are only one where even today simple office applications can't even use a tenth of what gets installed by default. At some point in time a new storage technology will become standard and provide so much capacity that it would be impossible for the standard user, however damanding, to use it all.
Flash memory sizes were increasing all the time and so did camera resolution. Now the standard compact camera available to the user is about 6 to 8 megapixels and flash memory size has hit a sweet spot of 2GB. Nobody really needs more megapixels or larger memory size because anything more is just redundant. The same will happen with movies, who needs anything larger than a 3 megapixel movie? and the standard quad layer Blu-Ray DVD will probably be enough to store it on.
While these have not yet settled in the market their phase out is already in the pipeline with holographic storage and HVDs where you can store your entire collection of 5000 CDs or 160 DB-DVDs on a 3.9 terabyte disk with a transfer rate of 128MB/s (megabyte per second).
Similarly to quantum computers that have the potential to do practically an infinate number of computations we may discover that quantum storage could hold practically an infinite amount of information. At some point we will hit a wall with what to do with the capacity we have and having more than one storage device will simply be a waste for anything other than data security.
Flash memory sizes were increasing all the time and so did camera resolution. Now the standard compact camera available to the user is about 6 to 8 megapixels and flash memory size has hit a sweet spot of 2GB. Nobody really needs more megapixels or larger memory size because anything more is just redundant. The same will happen with movies, who needs anything larger than a 3 megapixel movie? and the standard quad layer Blu-Ray DVD will probably be enough to store it on.
While these have not yet settled in the market their phase out is already in the pipeline with holographic storage and HVDs where you can store your entire collection of 5000 CDs or 160 DB-DVDs on a 3.9 terabyte disk with a transfer rate of 128MB/s (megabyte per second).
Similarly to quantum computers that have the potential to do practically an infinate number of computations we may discover that quantum storage could hold practically an infinite amount of information. At some point we will hit a wall with what to do with the capacity we have and having more than one storage device will simply be a waste for anything other than data security.
Looking through some old invoices a 40GB drive cost me over R2k and that was only about half of what was available. Now almost the largest 750GB drive will cost me just over R1.8k. Prices are not only coming down per gig but also the technology as a whole it seems.Reminds myself of the time when I bought a 250Mb drive for R500 - the following month a 500Mb drive could be bought for R500...
hectic times...
