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antropomorphic
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject: 1TB disk on its way |
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Lunatic Of Gods Creation Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:51 pm Posts: 1017
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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£200-500 coaster more like For me optical media has been dead for over a year, its unreliable, prone to a very short lifespan and deeply affected by system load, etc. In terms of storage, HDD is much better, and in terms of mobile medium, i think as soon as someone cracks the flash card route its going to completely replace the paradigm of "spinning a disc and shooting light at it", since well, its a wasteful and highly inefficient way of storing and retreiving data. My 2cents anyway
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antropomorphic
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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Lunatic Of Gods Creation Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:51 pm Posts: 1017
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I totally agree, I store all my shit on hdd's too, & with the size of usbkeys getting bigger & the price getting cheaper, I have no doubt that in the end we'll be going back to (some from of) cartridge again
I'm totally for the idea of movies coming on cards like bank cards
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BadBugs
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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The Ancient One Joined: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2624 Location: Chernobyl
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I certainly wouldnt want to back up several hundred films onto a plastic disk. Recent occurances of cyclic redundancy check error on old disks have been irritating & thats only 4.5gig disks, imaging losing 1TB
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Geezus
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:27 am Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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Demon Of The Abyss Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:24 pm Posts: 1340
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BadBugs wrote: | I certainly wouldnt want to back up several hundred films onto a plastic disk. Recent occurances of cyclic redundancy check error on old disks have been irritating & thats only 4.5gig disks, imaging losing 1TB |
Then you shouldn't have been cheap buying crap media. All my 5 year old dvdr's work fine . Keep them out of the damm sunlight. 1 afternoon in fierce sunlight ~ 1 year off it's life Spud wrote: | In terms of storage, HDD is much better, and in terms of mobile medium, i think as soon as someone cracks the flash card route its going to completely replace the paradigm of "spinning a disc and shooting light at it", since well, its a wasteful and highly inefficient way of storing and retreiving data. |
Get with the times you old fart http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13426-quantum-dot-memory-may-be-holy-grail-of-computing.htmlUsually takes about 5 years from lab to storeshelf. But by then we'll be drooling over something else on some drawing board won't we ?.
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19755 Location: En España
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Quote: | All my 5 year old dvdr's work fine . |
i call bullshit on that my friend, i have some verbs with CRCs after a couple of years. I don't believe you when you say all your discs are fine; logic, experience and the reality of firing light at a spinning object says no
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George Tatum
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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Demon Of The Abyss Joined: Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:18 pm Posts: 1426 Location: A padded cell
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Is a HD that has been used as a primary drive for the last 3-4 years OK to use for storage or would you recommend virgin discs?
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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George Tatum wrote: | Is a HD that has been used as a primary drive for the last 3-4 years OK to use for storage or would you recommend virgin discs? |
I have done, but my failed drives have been primarily maxtors and my advice would be not to put ANYTHING on one of those, new or old As long as you treat it well i don't see why not, do a disc scan on it for bad sectors and keep it in good conditions and you should not have any problems. Make and model is important though.
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George Tatum
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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Demon Of The Abyss Joined: Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:18 pm Posts: 1426 Location: A padded cell
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It's a Western Digital, I forget the model no, ~250GB IIRC.
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: 1TB disk on its way |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19755 Location: En España
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should have no problems with it then, just make sure its not knocked around and kept in nominal conditions (stick it in anti-static bag )
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