Or have one on a firefighters ladder truck for high rise rescue, or coastal rescue, much faster to fire up the fan(ny) pack than get an RIB out though heavy surf.
Oh yeah, because having a large ducted fan near a fire is always the best way to put it out.
Having RAID on the drive itself mostly defeats the purpose of RAID (excepting RAID 0, but even that has issues with this approach). RAID is best for combating downtime due to hardware failure. By sticking both "disks" of a RAID-1 on one drive, you have no recourse if one of those "disks" fails. You can't swap out half a drive to let it rebuild on a good 'disk'.
I was thinking more like RAID 5 or other models with redundancy, just in the same housing. HEY! don't be stealing my idea lol.
Yeah like in addition to sending email with buzz words, make sure your cell phone has nice a big external battery and GPS location enabled and send it via DHL to Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc. and back home, round trip.
Some folks argue that the stories (or, rather, the presentation and discussion of them) are unfairly slanted against Microsoft. For me, it comes down to this:
When a company has a warchest in excess of 500 billion US dollars, as well as immense market penetration in a variety of domains -- desktop operating systems, web browser, word processing software, spreadsheet software, etc. -- it is expected to have its act together.
(CompanyX AND 500 billion dollars) != "its act together"
For example:
Windows ME
Windows Vista
Zune
Games for Windows Live/Steam DRM
Surface RT
Xbox One and their DRM strategy (until it was revoked)
The main issue is that if a traditional HDD fails, there is a small chance for data recovery. There also may be a short period where you can catch the drive "on it's way out." When a SSD fails, it often fails spectacularly...often "bricking" the entire drive or corrupting the entire contents.
As long as the most regularly libraries and executables are cached, it shouldn't seem slow.. for other files, you only need to wait when they're opened initially. I don't even really notice when I open documents over a wi-fi link, so I don't see why opening documents from a 5,400RPM HDD should be much worse.
With that logic, we should all go back to 56k modems because its only slow the first time you load the webpage...right?
What's also certain is that with hybrid drives you get the slow read speed of a 5400 rpm, the mechanical disadvantage of a fragile rotating platter, and the catastrophic (read: total) data loss when SSD's fail.
No thanks. The money savings vs. buying a true SSD is not worth the extra complexity, slower read times, and potential for failure. If I am going to accept the risk of a SSD failure, it better be fast - through and through!
I can't wait until flash memory becomes so inexpensive that it becomes standard to have built in RAID arrays for redundancy and speed right in the HDD itself.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when using this device, a bullet, from a loaded cartridge, gets propelled down a barrel by action of the explosive powders in the cartridge.
Apparently you didn't RTFA.
Additionally, it seems you never played Doom or Quake and have not heard of the term "rail gun" before
"The U.S. Navy expects to save $20 million per year on its global logistics and transportation budget, thanks to technology that has been saving business travelers billions since 1996. "
Great! Now the Navy can buy like one or two extra bombs!
Police are just like everyone else, but with no one looking over their shoulders.
But, if you have drugs in your car, aren't you guilty anyway? Lies are one thing, I know. It'd suck to get pulled over for some lame traffic violation, have drug dogs called while you wait, have the dogs search your car, find nothing, and then you go on your merry way - but that'd be the last time the cops fucked with you, or you could then sue their pants off for harassment. This attack method is double-edged, for both sides.
It almost makes me want to become suspicious, just so I can get a nice, thick and juicy lawsuit going on, as currently I hate the local cops about as much as I hate the local drug dealers.
The problem is that if even if you don't have drugs in your car they will bring a dog. The dog may not even be trained to sniff drugs. The dog will (of course) indicate there may be drugs in the car and then they will continue ask you for your permission to search the vehicle. If you deny permission to search they will impound your car, which is a major inconvenience of time, money etc. Cops then have lots of options when the car is impounded...ranging from just making you pay the impound fee, to planting drugs in the car. Regardless if no drugs are found, you will be out a car, out some money to get your car back, possibly framed and of course have your 4th amendment rights stripped away. "Oh, sorry the dog found a false positive" or some other BS. Good luck winning a lawsuit for an unreasonable search when they don't find anything. Welcome to America.
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It must be the POLAR attraction to slashdot stories about electric cars. Don't worry, you can always DISCHARGE these as just more abuse of puns.
Well, that was an electrifying story! I really got a charge out of it.
GFY
And "viable" too.
Balmy and less authoritarian.
Balmer, and less authoritarian.
There, FTFY.
Yeah but I thought Mac's are WAY better than PC's because they don't get viruses! OMGz! /sarcasm
Of Course it does, I myself use UPS always, except for laptops, i sleep much better since then.
I use UPS too, but sometimes I use FedEx or DHL.
The formula is 1.25 Barrs to one Rosie O'Donnell.
The first thing I got from the article is that it was submitted by Frosty Piss.
Who said they wouldn't be able to provide a delivery window? The local Chinese delivery always says 45 min to an hour, shows up 20 min later.
In my experience, Chinese is usually ready "in about ten minute. You want egg woll?"
It's kind of like burning down the barn because the horse got out of the stall a century ago and now has a massive herd of descendants.
I was thinking it's more like detonating an explosive in a toilet when you could have just flushed the defecation instead.
Or have one on a firefighters ladder truck for high rise rescue, or coastal rescue, much faster to fire up the fan(ny) pack than get an RIB out though heavy surf.
Oh yeah, because having a large ducted fan near a fire is always the best way to put it out.
I thought the "O" in Obama stood for "big vagina," Thanks for correcting me!
I'd say we need a revolution, but I'm even more terrified of the most eager revolutionaries than I am of the lizards in charge.
I just don't know what to do anymore.
Your IP has been logged. Please remain calm, and await for the authorities in 5,4,3,2....
Having RAID on the drive itself mostly defeats the purpose of RAID (excepting RAID 0, but even that has issues with this approach). RAID is best for combating downtime due to hardware failure. By sticking both "disks" of a RAID-1 on one drive, you have no recourse if one of those "disks" fails. You can't swap out half a drive to let it rebuild on a good 'disk'.
I was thinking more like RAID 5 or other models with redundancy, just in the same housing. HEY! don't be stealing my idea lol.
Not really, you're talking about the difference between a couple seconds and 10-15 minutes.
10-15 minutes?!
Back in your day to load each webpage, did they deliver each bit by abacus via horseback? :P
Yeah like in addition to sending email with buzz words, make sure your cell phone has nice a big external battery and GPS location enabled and send it via DHL to Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc. and back home, round trip.
Some folks argue that the stories (or, rather, the presentation and discussion of them) are unfairly slanted against Microsoft. For me, it comes down to this:
When a company has a warchest in excess of 500 billion US dollars, as well as immense market penetration in a variety of domains -- desktop operating systems, web browser, word processing software, spreadsheet software, etc. -- it is expected to have its act together.
(CompanyX AND 500 billion dollars) != "its act together"
For example:
Windows ME
Windows Vista
Zune
Games for Windows Live/Steam DRM
Surface RT
Xbox One and their DRM strategy (until it was revoked)
The main issue is that if a traditional HDD fails, there is a small chance for data recovery. There also may be a short period where you can catch the drive "on it's way out." When a SSD fails, it often fails spectacularly...often "bricking" the entire drive or corrupting the entire contents.
As long as the most regularly libraries and executables are cached, it shouldn't seem slow.. for other files, you only need to wait when they're opened initially. I don't even really notice when I open documents over a wi-fi link, so I don't see why opening documents from a 5,400RPM HDD should be much worse.
With that logic, we should all go back to 56k modems because its only slow the first time you load the webpage...right?
What's also certain is that with hybrid drives you get the slow read speed of a 5400 rpm, the mechanical disadvantage of a fragile rotating platter, and the catastrophic (read: total) data loss when SSD's fail.
No thanks. The money savings vs. buying a true SSD is not worth the extra complexity, slower read times, and potential for failure. If I am going to accept the risk of a SSD failure, it better be fast - through and through!
I can't wait until flash memory becomes so inexpensive that it becomes standard to have built in RAID arrays for redundancy and speed right in the HDD itself.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when using this device, a bullet, from a loaded cartridge, gets propelled down a barrel by action of the explosive powders in the cartridge.
Apparently you didn't RTFA.
Additionally, it seems you never played Doom or Quake and have not heard of the term "rail gun" before
No explosive, or "loaded cartridge" required.
Great! Now the Navy can buy like one or two extra bombs!
Drug prohibition itself violates the 9th and 10th amendments.
Once could easily make the same argument for eating BBQ human corpses or building a house out of ivory tusks...
Police are just like everyone else, but with no one looking over their shoulders.
But, if you have drugs in your car, aren't you guilty anyway? Lies are one thing, I know. It'd suck to get pulled over for some lame traffic violation, have drug dogs called while you wait, have the dogs search your car, find nothing, and then you go on your merry way - but that'd be the last time the cops fucked with you, or you could then sue their pants off for harassment. This attack method is double-edged, for both sides.
It almost makes me want to become suspicious, just so I can get a nice, thick and juicy lawsuit going on, as currently I hate the local cops about as much as I hate the local drug dealers.
The problem is that if even if you don't have drugs in your car they will bring a dog. The dog may not even be trained to sniff drugs. The dog will (of course) indicate there may be drugs in the car and then they will continue ask you for your permission to search the vehicle. If you deny permission to search they will impound your car, which is a major inconvenience of time, money etc. Cops then have lots of options when the car is impounded...ranging from just making you pay the impound fee, to planting drugs in the car. Regardless if no drugs are found, you will be out a car, out some money to get your car back, possibly framed and of course have your 4th amendment rights stripped away. "Oh, sorry the dog found a false positive" or some other BS. Good luck winning a lawsuit for an unreasonable search when they don't find anything. Welcome to America.