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320GB Hard Drives announced
SparkyTWP writes "Maxtor has once again shown the world that we need more room for porn by announcing new IDE hard drives with capacities of up to 320GB. Prices will be between $300 and $400 and be commercially available by the end of the year."
if these drives only have one year warranties, what use is a 320GB hard drive?
Buy two.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
Now I'll have 20k of useful e-mails, but a trash folder with 319Gb of spam.
Now the big question is: how do I back this up?
with DVD-TB mode which will be the 56th variant on the DVD format standard of course!
Maxtor has once again shown the world that we need more room for porn
Shouldn't that be "Maxtor has once again shown the world that we need more porn in order to fill the available space"?
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
this just announced: Microsoft will make it's new version of the Windows operating system, Windows .NET, even more bloated, so as to appease hardware makers.
aw shit, i just posted on /. -- i guess you're right, it does make you do bad things :(
He's thinking of RA1D - redundant array of 1 disk:-D
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
Goddamn, I've been reading Slashdot at -1 for too long.
I read that as "Redundant Array of Expensive Dicks" - twice.
I keep my server in the bomb shelter underneath my house with the fireproof doors shut.
Yeah, that's where I kept my porn collection too, when I lived at home.
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
What do people actually put on 320GB hard drives? 1. pron 2. pron 3. mp3s 4. pron 5. more mp3s 6. pron 7. code 8. pron 9. pron 10. pics of my summer vacation to disney world. actually, i have a use for it...i have a multimedia server which streams music to my home theater system... it acts like a big jukebox for my collection of 400 CDs which i've ripped @ 256Kbps...at that quality, the size of the mp3 is much larger...so more space is always a good thing...not to mention, i buy a lot of CDs...so a 320 GB drive would be excellent for my stuff now...and for all the future rips... oh yeah, and i usually store movies, videos and pictures on this box... right now i'm using a combo of 100GB and 80GB drives to keep this stuff...a 320GB drive would replace all of them...
-asciilogic
Blue Screens.
How much of that data can't be re-created?
Hell, if I had an opportunity to "re-create" 1/10 of the porn I have, I'd never touch my computer again.
To argue that this is wrong because of defeating the DVD CSS in a DMCA-defying act is like arguing it's suddenly O.K. to roast Jews because Nazis in power passed a law saying so. (Yes, yes, Godwin's Law, and the concentration camps' purpose was somewhat hidden from the populace, so the analogy isn't perfect).
For the information of those, like me, who had never heard of Godwin's Law, it states: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
Eventually, as you go higher, you will reach 2^300, where the most significant digit in base ten is 2, not a 1. Luckily that number is higher than the estimated number of atoms in the universe, or else we'd eventually be getting screwed by HD manufacturers.