Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the now-thats-a-lotta-pr0n dept.
Delta-9 writes "Here is a writeup on how to combine 6 200GB IDE drives into a small tower and hack together some firewire controllers to give you one giant 1.2TB firewire drive." Very cool project, both technically and aesthetically.
When I wired up 5 60MB SCSI-25 drives back in the day to get a whooping capacity of 5x60MB...
And still that amount of data is almost half of one of today's most popular RO mediums.. =)
But none the less, nice article and with the disk prices these day's it's getting closer within rage for many of the people that spend that much on electronics... I sure do =P
he used fire wire and not usb or scsi - or well anything else. this will save us from the hundred or so "Why not firewire?" posts every time somebody discusses some other method of moving data around.
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-- It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
What is this tear-uh-bite that you speak of? I've never heard of such a thing. Please tell us how big this drive is in units of Libraries of Congress or in terms of how high a stack of floppies it would take.
-- "People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
Or better, how many Libraries of Congress could those 3.5" floppies fill? Well, lets see.... they would fill a room 40ft x 22ft x 10ft. What that's all? And they could only pave half a mile of road. Quite lame.
However you could stitch together some fine floppy-disk jump-suits for 10 blue whales! Much more impressive.
Re:Slashdotted again...
by
s20451
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· Score: 5, Funny
It is my purpose in life to get Slashdot to post a link to a station wagon full of DVDs.
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This guy is wishing he hadn't posted 3 megs worth of pictures.
When I wired up 5 60MB SCSI-25 drives back in the day to get a whooping capacity of 5x60MB...
And still that amount of data is almost half of one of today's most popular RO mediums.. =)
But none the less, nice article and with the disk prices these day's it's getting closer within rage for many of the people that spend that much on electronics... I sure do =P
Just dug up an old receipt just recently for a Seagate 20MB hard drive, 1992.
Total: $495.24
he used fire wire and not usb or scsi - or well anything else. this will save us from the hundred or so "Why not firewire?" posts every time somebody discusses some other method of moving data around.
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a 1.2TB firewire drive if you can't serve any content from it?
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
... 1.2x10^12 bytes or 1.2x1024^4 bytes?
So you've got a terrabyte of data, but can it handle Slashdot?
1.2 TB RAID -- $900
386-based Web Server -- $0.25
The satisfaction of a slashdotting -- priceless
No no no - it's not slashdotted. He's just running Norton Disk Doctor. Check back in November.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
What is this tear-uh-bite that you speak of? I've never heard of such a thing. Please tell us how big this drive is in units of Libraries of Congress or in terms of how high a stack of floppies it would take.
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
It is my purpose in life to get Slashdot to post a link to a station wagon full of DVDs.
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
Do you think he might be compensating for something, eh?
</Shrek voice>
Please visit my archive of art work photos for this project. Click on any picture for a very high resolution photo. Some of these really move me.
Something tells me he's regretting that right now.
-- Dr. Eldarion --