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Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Jitendra Rana — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:47:24 -0000

I remember my first PC had 4.3 GB and I used to wonder what in the world I would need so such space for.... now I have more than 600 GB and still need some more space...

one thing I do know now is no matter how much space you have, its never enough !!!

Now I am waiting when I am gonna be able to run my PC entirely on solid state storage... that would be cool.. at least for now...

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Steve — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:26:36 -0000

Speaking of early technology, though a bit later than Apple's 5.25" floppys...

Anyone remember Lisa's (And Apple's) first hard drive? It was external, big and heavy, 5 Megabytes, took somewhere around 5-10 minutes to boot the Lisa, and cost $2495.00.

Years later, the 160 Meg Seagate drive died on my 4-month old Mac IIx. This was in the day when Apple's warranty was 90 days, even though Seagate's was 1 year. No amount of complaining changed my fate- $1700.00 for a new 160M drive.

Yesterday, after a Drive Genius bug nuked my SATA 250G drive, I went to Best Buy and bought an external FireWire/USB 2.0 Seagate 750G drive for$335.00, give or take a few singles. Oh, and it's full today. Temporarily, while I resurrect data.

BTW, I do have a huge drive with all the Hubble data on it. A virtual one, anyway. The internet!

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Dave — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:15:19 -0000

I use a 540 Megabyte drive in my firewall that is beside me. Why, because it is fun to hear it click away. Clicks are a poor man's top. We don't need no steenking guis

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Chris Hajer — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:11:14 -0000

@10 - my bad on comment @9: bad math or typo, one or the other :)

It's a big drive, that's all that matters I think. I still have some 2.1 GB drives here on the desk ...

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Dean Poulin — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:08:01 -0000

Correction: 1TB = 1,024GB = 1,048,576MB

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Ed Fuller — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:09:28 -0000

I remember when we counted with little lumps of just cooled lava ... and were my feet hot!

Actually, I do remember the old Purple Data Pushers -- they were the reason I got into computers. At work we had a copy of the original Dungeons and Dragons (pre "Adventure" and "Zork") on the 8" dual (!) floppy drives and I learned to access the computer during my lunch break (yeah ..., thats what it was ... "lunch") so I could play the game. What I discovered was that the computer was a real-life form of the game. You had to solve puzzles, know the secret passwords, spells, and other esoteric knowledge and at any point either a thief would zip by and steal your treasures or else the troll under the bridge would come out and get you.

Sometimes I wax nostalgic for manually almost-booting with the front panel switches, the twisted and torn punch tapes, IBM card mispunches and a dropped-torn-spindled-and-mutilated deck, inaudible audio cassette drives, the constant clacking of the floppy drives, and the shear volume of a room full of Telex machines. And if you believe that, I've got some beachfront property to sell you!

Thanks for the memories.

-eef

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Christopher Coulter — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:08:46 -0000

Seagate hasn't abandoned eSATA have they? Seems like it, USB2 and FW, ugh. The ole' ST3500601XS-RK is a beaut. So any 1TB eSATA's?

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

dm — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:26:54 -0000

I wonder how much the Seagates will go for. I remember buying an external Maxtor drive in ~1996: $250 for 250MB.

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Brent — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:01:51 -0000

Robert, have you thought of changing your picture at the top of the blog to a more wind in your hair, exposed chest, Chris DiBona like one?

He'd look too much like his hero --The Breck Girl, John Edwards.

:lol:

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Paul Roundy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:14:38 -0000

Robert, have you thought of changing your picture at the top of the blog to a more wind in your hair, exposed chest, Chris DiBona like one?

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Buddy Lindsey — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:49:39 -0000

Whats a floppy drive? ;)

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Nik Cubrilovic — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:46:16 -0000

At Omnidrive, we moved to the Seagate 750 drives shortly after they were released (after thrashing them with testing) - we eagerly await the release of the 1TB drives!

You can't think what you can do with just one, well, I say that within a few months of release we will buy *hundreds* of the 1TB model

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Tao — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:12:41 -0000

As me and business partners used to say "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of tapes". Funny it is still holds true 10 years down the line...

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Goebbels — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:04:53 -0000

How can you more pathetically pitch your advertiser?

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

mike3k — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:45:22 -0000

I'd get two of them and set them up as RAID 1. Right now I'm using a Buffalo TeraStation which uses 4x250G drives, which I have configured as RAID 5 for a total of 750G.

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Jim Minatel — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:22:03 -0000

You'll be stunned how fast those HD videos of the new baby from your new HD camcorder eat up 1TB drive after another! :)

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Christian (the Canadian) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:17:23 -0000

@9 & @4 I believe in all the excitement a small typo makes for a HUGE difference! Laptop of 50 GB, and these new Seagates hold "20" times as much! 40 times would be 2000 GB (40x50) or 2 TB. They'll probably have that out in 3 months, just like the first processor roll outs; every 2 weeks saw a new speed.

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Chris Hajer — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:56:50 -0000

@4. 1 TB == 1 terabyte == 1000 GB (gigabytes) == a ton of storage on a hard drive. My laptop has 50 GB, and these new drives hold 40 times as much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Jayakumar Hariharan — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:46:33 -0000

"640K of memory should be enough for anybody"

Jay, from Bangalore
http://ideaburger.blogspot.com

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Dario Salvelli — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:42:07 -0000

120TB..Wow,this is great for all p2p people. ;)

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Neuromancer — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:41:41 -0000

One of the rist thigs I did when I started work was help to install a new double 8 inch floppy drive in our PDP11 took 2 men to lift it into place and a third to steady the drive from the back.

BTW did you see the Inventor of FORTRAN died a few days ago.

And podtech realy ought to do a video on the spacex guys

http://spacex.com/updates.php

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Tim — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:11:34 -0000

I remember when it was all just fields!

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Tingting Rimart — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:32:55 -0000

what is 1TB????sorry for being ignorant

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

John — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:14:32 -0000

I remember my cassette tape drive for my Vic 20...the envy of all my friends.

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Robert Scoble — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:59:31 -0000

Brent: I remember when getting a floppy drive for your Apple II was very cool.