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A Terabyte In A Cigar Box
Anonymous Howard writes "LaCie has introduced a 1 Terabyte (capacity) disk for (get this) only $1,199.00!(USD) It is external and equipped with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, iLink/DV, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 to connect to both PC and Mac. Take a look here."
Cuban hard drives are illegal to import in the United States.
Wow, FireWire 400, 800 *AND* iLink / DV ? How did they do THAT?
And, it not only does USB 2 but 1.1 as well? That's amazing!
Now, does it have a Philips-head screwdriver, too?
Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
A cigar box full of porn!
The primary subtitle is "Bigger Disk", which is suspiciously similar to the subject lines of half of the spam I get.
2 Gig of Cubans, and I'll try one of those custom hand-rolled jobs you got there. Yeah, the one with the pointy ends.
You are not the customer.
That drive will only hold 1/20th of the Library of Congress.
Buy 19 more if you want to be cool.
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I remember when 100 megs was cool
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You youngsters
I have an 1st gen IBM PC here that says 5M was once very cool, so cool it was double-height and you had to park the heads before sneezing, and a PDP-11 in my collection that swears 512K removable disks the size of my satellite dish, with the washing-machine-sized drive that went with them, were all the rage back then.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Wow. I calculate it would take about 10 continous days to download or upload one of these over USB 1.1.
How about over Parallel port? (like zip drive)
Or infrared port?
Or PS/2 keyboard port?
Or by carrier pigeon?
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
#234 rule on slashdot: never mention something you think is oldskool. Some old fart will come along and tell you about stuff that's been even less desireable to have owned. And they won't stop! Please, make it stop!
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
lesse here... 1 Terabyte at USB 1.1 speeds.
1,000,000 megabytes / 1.5 megabytes per second... Divide results by 3600 (number of seconds in an hour)
Thinking, thinking...
Oh, about a week to back this drive up at USB 1.1 speeds. Heh... so much for your vacation plans.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
...on how long till it becomes self aware?
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you whipppersnappers and your newfangled rules. back in my day, we didn't have a rule #234. old farts used to talk about long gone days ALL THE TIME for no apparent reason ABOUT ANYTHING. And we liked it.
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Well, except for 640k of memory....
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... and then, on the 1056th year:
Carrier lost. Download aborted.
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