I think the only people to care enough to write reviews on mechanical drives these days are those with a bad story to tell because there's absolutely nothing exciting to say. Nobody cares about performance anymore because SSDs has spanked them every which way but they're cheap, big and they work, sure you could get a lemon but I'd take backups of that SSD too. I think your chances of a broken drive was much higher back when they had new tech and doubled in capacity every two years.
Approximately 50% of respondents mentioned the drives worked and the were mostly happy, aside from quite a lot of drive noise. ~25% remarked their drives worked for a while. About 15% mentioned at least 1 DOA arriving in their order, whether it was the only one or one or two out of a few or several.
Not quite the expceptions. I've dealt with RMAs before, but the concept of spending a day moving frome one drive to anther and then having it die isn't very attractive. A RAID is the only way I'll go with hard drives.
Ah, and we once had a stack of old Byte magazines on a shelf in the corner, I leafed through a few for a good laugh. 1980 a 5 MB drive cost $2500, a 10 MB drive cost about $4000.
I bought a 512GB SSD for $400-ish. It's about time somebody stuffed that kind of drive into a USB stick. It should have mass market appeal so the volume should be much higher than regular SSDs.
Dennis Nedry called, he's got the complete mapped DNA of all the dinosaurs for you. He'll be delivering them as soon as he gets his car out of the mud.
Really, why not record and archive random traffic sounds? Some day when everyone is flitting about in whisper quiet air cars they'll marvel at the cacophony of the present age. Gadzooks!
I laughed for about half a minute at that name. Next year: Mega Terminator X-treme 5x5!!!
Soon followed by the Gargantutron Ultra eXtreme Super Hyperwossname.
Long ago, far away, names were already a complete mockery of the marketing department clowns. They have transcended mere idiocy, surpassed art-form and gone right down the Ultra eXtreme loo.
According to Engadget it is not something we are all going to bring to work day to day just yet
If you're interested in snagging one of the top two units, be advised that the price of the 512GB edition is a staggering $1,750.00 -- so you'd better get working on impressing that MLB scout next time they're passing by.
8GB drives were something to salivate over, because you could store an entire DVD on it.
Now these things are so commonplace I have them littering my desk, giveaways from tradeshows, vendors, etc. You can get them in amusing shapes of Taz, Hello Kitty or Dora the Explorer at the office store.
Finally dipping my toe in the water with an SSD for the desktop machine. It's been running for years on a pair of Seagate 160GB SATA I drives, which are near capacity. I thought about buying a couple of 1.5 TB drives, but reviews are very dismal on mechanical storage drives now. Seems a lot of old manufacturers are being bought up by Seagate and Seagate and Western Digital will soon be the only players left in a "buggy whip" market. Hard to beat the GB/$ deal with hard drives, but with 1 year warranties and a lot of DOA deliveries, plus quite a lot of drives which seem to die within the first year, I'm not super inclined to put my valuable files on them.
Here's hoping by the end of the 2013 we have some good prices on high capacity SSDs and In can move my photos, videos and miscellaneous crap onto new drives.
I'm pretty sure the idea of online courses it that they're cheaper than in-person courses.
"First, disconnect battery cables, ignition wiring harness, air intake hose, remove fan cowling. Drain cooling system and set coolant aside. Place lift hooks into engine lift attachements. Next place support beneath transmission and loosen engine mounting bolts from transmission..."
Damn, but this is hard to do in a second floor flat.
A single weather station? Whatever happened to "weather's not climate?"
Also, why is this single weather station suddenly getting a paper? It's been there since 1958, there is nothing here we didn't know.
When it is a crisis who will remember all these little events pointing to what became the rising sea levels and flooding of major metropolitan areas around the world? Almost the same sort of blinkered view which didn't see the Nazis invading Poland or IJN bombing Pearl Harbor until it was actually happening.
This is not necessarily the end of the Edison Junior’s portable power project. Siminoff told me that the team will be re-focusing on a device that supports Android phones and tablets and Apple products as well, if backers wish to use a Lightning-to-USB connector, or an older 30-pin connector. They’ll only build that device, however, if the crowdfunding community wants it.
They want to do that, but they'd be building a different project than what people pledged for. So for obvious reasons they would need to start over.
Or team up with someone who does have the license. If there is anyone.
Then again, could they manufacture a connector which coincidentally works?
Ah, such are the things a patent suit lawyer dreams of.
"Well kill them, then eviscerate them, then flay them, then give them a wedgie!"
Unfortunately, though, the people who are ashamed are for the most part not really in any position to do anything about it. They're the low-paid extras hired to act in the security theater, not the playwright, production company, or theater owner...
Yeah, they're really missing out on a promising and exciting career as a Mall Cop or Rent-a-Cop.
That attitude doesn't seem to be limited to China.
I'm certain it isn't. In the most recent US election I frequently saw people vote against their own best interests.
And you can pick dozens of countries where people exist who feel this way. Why would anyone back Assad in Syria? Because the status quo favors them and the spectre of change is mighty fearsome.
It's relevant because web censorship in China is being slightly reduced. Considering web is part of tech and this is a tech website, posting it here makes sense.
Based upon a recent BBC report, there is a majority of Chinese who will go right along with anything the government wants to do, because the consider the Goverment practically a member of the family -- like a wise parent looking after them -- and go so far as to take pride in that. What's more important to the Chinese people is cutting down corruption, not censorship.
Because these terrorists are ignoramuses from countries where control of everything is centralized in a dictator or a theocracy, so naturally they can't comprehend of a liberal democracy where this might not be the case.
Ah, but they can comprehend a liberal democracy. Anything which challenges the fixed set of beliefs their cowardly windbag guides brainwash them into accepting without question is the enemy, particularly a place in this world where they could actually think for themselves, which is particularly cold and lonely if you've never never thought for yourself.
I once was astounded people chose to be prisoners of thought, until I began to understand the Stockholm Syndrom
These people will do great harm to themselves, innocents and even their own family at a word. It's not all about some promise of a happy afterlife.
Skynet will be needed by the Cyborgs. Perhaps a Cyborg army will be created to deal with the Chinese, but instead will turn against all humans. That's my prediction for 2030, and no... I most certainly do not welcome any new Cyborg overlords.
I think the prediction is conservative. Consider the drones we already have deployed and the advances in autonomous devices in the past decade, the hardware is pretty much here, it's just getting the programming down pat. For all we know the programming could be pretty close already, but nobody with it is going to tell you they have prototypes of 'cyborgs' which can fly or amble about, recognise your face and decide the best way to eliminate you if necessary. No lasers needed, bullets are still pretty darn effective.
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I think the only people to care enough to write reviews on mechanical drives these days are those with a bad story to tell because there's absolutely nothing exciting to say. Nobody cares about performance anymore because SSDs has spanked them every which way but they're cheap, big and they work, sure you could get a lemon but I'd take backups of that SSD too. I think your chances of a broken drive was much higher back when they had new tech and doubled in capacity every two years.
Approximately 50% of respondents mentioned the drives worked and the were mostly happy, aside from quite a lot of drive noise. ~25% remarked their drives worked for a while. About 15% mentioned at least 1 DOA arriving in their order, whether it was the only one or one or two out of a few or several.
Not quite the expceptions. I've dealt with RMAs before, but the concept of spending a day moving frome one drive to anther and then having it die isn't very attractive. A RAID is the only way I'll go with hard drives.
Around 1990, I paid $400 for a 40MB MFM drive.
Dude! By 1990 everyone was moving to RLL!
Ah, and we once had a stack of old Byte magazines on a shelf in the corner, I leafed through a few for a good laugh. 1980 a 5 MB drive cost $2500, a 10 MB drive cost about $4000.
I learned from Wally.
I bought a 512GB SSD for $400-ish. It's about time somebody stuffed that kind of drive into a USB stick. It should have mass market appeal so the volume should be much higher than regular SSDs.
Dennis Nedry called, he's got the complete mapped DNA of all the dinosaurs for you. He'll be delivering them as soon as he gets his car out of the mud.
The Swiss Army knife with a 1TB drive available last year goes for $3000.
I find the older ones amusing. What good is this old memory stick on a knife good for? At least a knife is timeless.
Just call the next one "Cloud". I store everything in the Cloud.
Cloud's too slow.
Let me know when your local telco upgrades that copper so you can upload data at 160MB/s and also drops usage caps.
Is there limitation hardware or software? Where is the bottleneck?
Just give me a csv.
Probably a simple hashing routine would cut down on the size 1 = LOL, 10 = ROFL, 11 = ROFLMAO, ...
Archives trash.
Really, why not record and archive random traffic sounds? Some day when everyone is flitting about in whisper quiet air cars they'll marvel at the cacophony of the present age. Gadzooks!
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I laughed for about half a minute at that name. Next year: Mega Terminator X-treme 5x5!!!
Soon followed by the Gargantutron Ultra eXtreme Super Hyperwossname.
Long ago, far away, names were already a complete mockery of the marketing department clowns. They have transcended mere idiocy, surpassed art-form and gone right down the Ultra eXtreme loo.
According to Engadget it is not something we are all going to bring to work day to day just yet
If you're interested in snagging one of the top two units, be advised that the price of the 512GB edition is a staggering $1,750.00 -- so you'd better get working on impressing that MLB scout next time they're passing by.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/kingston-1tb-flash-drive/
And in three years they'll be selling them at the office supply store for $30.
Ain't the relentless march of tenchological innovation wunnerful?
8GB drives were something to salivate over, because you could store an entire DVD on it.
Now these things are so commonplace I have them littering my desk, giveaways from tradeshows, vendors, etc. You can get them in amusing shapes of Taz, Hello Kitty or Dora the Explorer at the office store.
Finally dipping my toe in the water with an SSD for the desktop machine. It's been running for years on a pair of Seagate 160GB SATA I drives, which are near capacity. I thought about buying a couple of 1.5 TB drives, but reviews are very dismal on mechanical storage drives now. Seems a lot of old manufacturers are being bought up by Seagate and Seagate and Western Digital will soon be the only players left in a "buggy whip" market. Hard to beat the GB/$ deal with hard drives, but with 1 year warranties and a lot of DOA deliveries, plus quite a lot of drives which seem to die within the first year, I'm not super inclined to put my valuable files on them.
Here's hoping by the end of the 2013 we have some good prices on high capacity SSDs and In can move my photos, videos and miscellaneous crap onto new drives.
I'm pretty sure the idea of online courses it that they're cheaper than in-person courses.
"First, disconnect battery cables, ignition wiring harness, air intake hose, remove fan cowling. Drain cooling system and set coolant aside. Place lift hooks into engine lift attachements. Next place support beneath transmission and loosen engine mounting bolts from transmission ..."
Damn, but this is hard to do in a second floor flat.
A single weather station? Whatever happened to "weather's not climate?"
Also, why is this single weather station suddenly getting a paper? It's been there since 1958, there is nothing here we didn't know.
When it is a crisis who will remember all these little events pointing to what became the rising sea levels and flooding of major metropolitan areas around the world? Almost the same sort of blinkered view which didn't see the Nazis invading Poland or IJN bombing Pearl Harbor until it was actually happening.
RTFA.
They want to do that, but they'd be building a different project than what people pledged for. So for obvious reasons they would need to start over.
Or team up with someone who does have the license. If there is anyone.
Then again, could they manufacture a connector which coincidentally works?
Ah, such are the things a patent suit lawyer dreams of.
"Well kill them, then eviscerate them, then flay them, then give them a wedgie!"
Unfortunately, though, the people who are ashamed are for the most part not really in any position to do anything about it. They're the low-paid extras hired to act in the security theater, not the playwright, production company, or theater owner...
Yeah, they're really missing out on a promising and exciting career as a Mall Cop or Rent-a-Cop.
Get that man Geocaching.
There's an 82 year-old out hiding and finding caches and having a blast, around here.
Where's it flying too, White Hart Lane?
... he's dead.
.. Jim.
. . . he needs an official declaration that he was never guilty in the first place, and should never have been prosecuted.
Or a declaration that the law used in the prosecution and conviction was an evil, mean and stupid law, put on the books by a bunch of stinkers.
and Britain should never apologise for slavery because it was a totally cool thing with the Crown at the time
That attitude doesn't seem to be limited to China.
I'm certain it isn't. In the most recent US election I frequently saw people vote against their own best interests.
And you can pick dozens of countries where people exist who feel this way. Why would anyone back Assad in Syria? Because the status quo favors them and the spectre of change is mighty fearsome.
It's relevant because web censorship in China is being slightly reduced. Considering web is part of tech and this is a tech website, posting it here makes sense.
Based upon a recent BBC report, there is a majority of Chinese who will go right along with anything the government wants to do, because the consider the Goverment practically a member of the family -- like a wise parent looking after them -- and go so far as to take pride in that. What's more important to the Chinese people is cutting down corruption, not censorship.
Because these terrorists are ignoramuses from countries where control of everything is centralized in a dictator or a theocracy, so naturally they can't comprehend of a liberal democracy where this might not be the case.
Ah, but they can comprehend a liberal democracy. Anything which challenges the fixed set of beliefs their cowardly windbag guides brainwash them into accepting without question is the enemy, particularly a place in this world where they could actually think for themselves, which is particularly cold and lonely if you've never never thought for yourself.
I once was astounded people chose to be prisoners of thought, until I began to understand the Stockholm Syndrom
These people will do great harm to themselves, innocents and even their own family at a word. It's not all about some promise of a happy afterlife.
People must have looked on and though, "What they heck is he/she doing there?!? Oh my!"
Skynet will be needed by the Cyborgs.
Perhaps a Cyborg army will be created to deal with the Chinese, but instead will turn against all humans.
That's my prediction for 2030, and no... I most certainly do not welcome any new Cyborg overlords.
I think the prediction is conservative. Consider the drones we already have deployed and the advances in autonomous devices in the past decade, the hardware is pretty much here, it's just getting the programming down pat. For all we know the programming could be pretty close already, but nobody with it is going to tell you they have prototypes of 'cyborgs' which can fly or amble about, recognise your face and decide the best way to eliminate you if necessary. No lasers needed, bullets are still pretty darn effective.
Must be over-due for a good conspiracy theory
We're establishing trade relations with the extraterrestrials, eventually we'll be outsourcing manufacturing to the stars!