The future is now

[katster]

So I got a new hard drive for Christmas.  It astounds me that something smaller than a standard paperback novel holds 1 terabyte of data.  Even more astounding, it cost less than half of the six gigabyte drive I bought in 1998.

The future is now, and it’s truly awesome.

Mirrored from retstak.org.

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[chuckconnor.livejournal.com]

It's a strange whorled indeed - though not sure why it's sitting on a copy of UKL's The Dispossessed (not one of my all-time faves.)

I suspect, as I'm not running some i7/i5/i3/Hackintosh varients then I'm considered old hat (especially as most of my rigs are based on material and stuff tossed onto ebay from the Wanna-Haves) but we've become a media-hungry society, with masses of data and nothing backed up to anything.) The trick is always to make resiliant copies, regardless of the size of the disks.

As for comparisons? That ain't wise with me, missy! I've just remembered buying a 386DX motherboard for £168 back in 1990 (I think) which no longer needed a co-pro socket and wasn't able to use DIL RAM chips (not sticks, but physical spider-leg chips you had to bend the legs to the right shape an' an' an'... Kids today jist don't know how gash-darn lucky they is!)

Now, of course, I wouldn't even think of paying as much as £168 for a whole base unit/componant parts...

TTFN!

[katster.livejournal.com]

I needed a paperback book for comparison, and it was the only one in my backpack -- I was reading it as part of my Reading the Hugos project that got stalled in this mess of a year. (I knew some smart alec was going to comment on that.) ;)

And I know this about backups, although I'll admit I'm not the best at actually practicing it.

And yeah, I know, I'm a youngun, but that hard drive sticks out because it's the first thing I bought with hard-earned money from my summer job. :)

-kat

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations on the summer job and the financials - if it's any consolation, the first hard drive I could actually afford to buy was a 10Mb MFM, after having bought a controller card and reading up on how to low-level format using cylinders, sectors and heads. Now, of course, I scare the little darlings at work where we're running a lovely *NIX system and SCSI buses. Ya know the sort? Ya can't find a fault with them, then three blow up at once... :)

[katster.livejournal.com]

Well, this was back in 1998, so a while ago. But that's why the six gig drive stands out, as I know exactly how much I paid for it. All $250 of it.

As for SCSI, I understand it needs blood to run, but this might just be hoary tales told by sysadmins older than I. :) Most of my sysadminning these days is either fixing laptops or on the software side of the house.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

indeed :)