A Terabyte In A Cigar Box

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 14, 2004 @10:08AM from the drool-drool-droll dept.

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."

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Sorry.. by holzp · 2004-01-14 10:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Cuban hard drives are illegal to import in the United States.
So many ports! by rco3 · 2004-01-14 10:10 · Score: 5, Funny

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?

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Finally! by pantycrickets · 2004-01-14 10:10 · Score: 5, Funny

A cigar box full of porn!
1. Re:Finally! by Sideshow+Coward · 2004-01-14 10:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Don't laugh... but when my grandpa died a couple of years ago, he actually had a cigar box of naughty pictures. Now we think of him with a little different perspective. FYI... my brother won the box of porn in a raffle.
"Bigger Disk" by EmCeeHawking · 2004-01-14 10:12 · Score: 5, Funny

The primary subtitle is "Bigger Disk", which is suspiciously similar to the subject lines of half of the spam I get.
For the record... by Guano_Jim · 2004-01-14 10:13 · Score: 5, Funny

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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1. Re:For the record... by Lxy · 2004-01-14 10:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes, but considering that it's small, you can probably fit 20... yes, you can fit the library of congress into a Volkswagon!
  
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Re:wow... by xankar · 2004-01-14 10:16 · Score: 5, Funny

five.

consider me a soothsayer.

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Re:Man... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2004-01-14 10:17 · Score: 5, Funny

I remember when 100 megs was cool

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.

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Re:USB 1.1? by chunkwhite86 · 2004-01-14 10:24 · Score: 5, Funny

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?

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Re:Man... by TCM · 2004-01-14 10:31 · Score: 5, Funny

#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!

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Re:Man... by athakur999 · 2004-01-14 10:45 · Score: 5, Funny

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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