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Latest SCSI Drive Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the ask-your-parents-about-it dept.

Sivar writes "StorageReview got their hands on a Maxtor Atlas 10K V, the first SCSI hard drive in more than two years to double capacity. Considering how quickly storage was improving just a few years ago, and other news like Intel's cancellation of the 4GHz Pentium IV despite AMD's lead you have to wonder if the traditional predictions of the end of Moore's Observation are actually beginning to come true."

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  1. Welcome to the new /. by DAldredge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Welcome to the new /. where we just LOOK like we know what the hell we are talking about.

  2. Re:wtf? by junkgui · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then I would like to be the first to make the observation that hard disk capacity doubles every 12 to 18 months... wow... I want a raise.

  3. Re:Large caches by BeerCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    A machine left on for a while would start to smoke.

    Yeah, I had a machine like that once. I think dust was blocking the air vents :)

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    "She's furniture with a pulse"
  4. No way-A piece of the PI. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "You know, I've heard that the human brain operates at about a 10Hz frequency, has 100Bln neurons, and trillions of interconnections. Amazingly, its power dissipation is at around 40W. (And its MIPS rating is on the order of 10^15 instructions per second). Clearly mother nature got it right for efficient computation."

    Try calculating PI on it.

  5. Re:No way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    mazingly, its power dissipation is at around 40W
    And it has a bitchin' liquid cooling system. I've seen some groovy case mods, too.
  6. I don't understand GB... by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... how many Libraries of Congress is that?

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    This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
    1. Re:I don't understand GB... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I have to report: not very many. I've started scanning all my books into .BMP files at 2400dpi, and I'll tell you these "big" hard drives aren't all they're cracked up to be. Most of them can't even store a single book!