Biggest switch I've seen recently was a 1250 amps rated electricity switch. Housed in a transparent casing, the outside switch moves big pieces of tin-coated copper. I was watching from a safe distance while the electrician casually unscrewed the top cover, I suppose it wasn't a live circuit at the time. It is used to supply power to a printing press.
I have the Crumpler "December Quarter" which is perfect for travel. It fits my Powerbook, Nikon D70s+flash, extra lens, iPod, various chargers and cables, Point and Shoot camera, and has this really handy seal to keep pickpockets out. There are also quick access compartments for things like memory cards, ID, keys. I also don't care for a backpack, but prefer to reach inside my messenger bag. Plus you look like a tourist with a backpack and if you wear a suit it really crumples your jacket.
You could also buy a Tamrac camera bag but they're ugly and practically scream "mug me!".
Really, use it. HDD's are really unreliable. They have too many bits that can break, the drive electronics can go bad, which you can sometimes solve by replacing a logic board from another identical HDD, but would you want to? Then there's the disks themselves that can go bad or fail to spin up because they've been lying on a shelf for a long time. Correctly stored tapes can last 30 years and when I say correctly, I mean in a vault of an offsite tape storage company which maintains proper humidity and temperature. I'd use LTO or DLT tapes, as these are the most ubiquitous and the drives tend to have the best build quality. The drive can be a significant investment, but tapes are cheap, I think you can get $22 for 200GB nowadays.
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Biggest switch I've seen recently was a 1250 amps rated electricity switch. Housed in a transparent casing, the outside switch moves big pieces of tin-coated copper. I was watching from a safe distance while the electrician casually unscrewed the top cover, I suppose it wasn't a live circuit at the time. It is used to supply power to a printing press.
I have the Crumpler "December Quarter" which is perfect for travel. It fits my Powerbook, Nikon D70s+flash, extra lens, iPod, various chargers and cables, Point and Shoot camera, and has this really handy seal to keep pickpockets out. There are also quick access compartments for things like memory cards, ID, keys. I also don't care for a backpack, but prefer to reach inside my messenger bag. Plus you look like a tourist with a backpack and if you wear a suit it really crumples your jacket.
You could also buy a Tamrac camera bag but they're ugly and practically scream "mug me!".
Really, use it. HDD's are really unreliable. They have too many bits that can break, the drive electronics can go bad, which you can sometimes solve by replacing a logic board from another identical HDD, but would you want to? Then there's the disks themselves that can go bad or fail to spin up because they've been lying on a shelf for a long time. Correctly stored tapes can last 30 years and when I say correctly, I mean in a vault of an offsite tape storage company which maintains proper humidity and temperature. I'd use LTO or DLT tapes, as these are the most ubiquitous and the drives tend to have the best build quality. The drive can be a significant investment, but tapes are cheap, I think you can get $22 for 200GB nowadays.
So? Get a SCSI SCA bay and some decent SCA trays and there you are. Works like a charm.
Actually, they won't list anything smaller than a /19 which is 8192 addresses.