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  • bigger hard-drives anyone?

    Fancy a bigger hard-drive for the millions of MP3s you'll have by the end of the decade?
    Look, I know you think the world of me, that's understandable, you're only human, but it's not nice to call somebody "Vain"!

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    No one's going to build it... how would you increase the areal density from this absolute minimum? Hard drive makers need planned obsolescence too..

    It's a cool idea though.. you could build a completely enclosed RAID in a single drive to combat the delicacy of data. Each platter could be a separate RAID disc..
    Last edited by KvHagedorn; 10 September 2002, 21:52.

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    • #3
      a shame each drive would need a tunnelling, electron microscope, in order to read the data still, it's a nice thought, which is what counts, right? (Tom Pabst may disagree on the 'nice thought' part)
      Look, I know you think the world of me, that's understandable, you're only human, but it's not nice to call somebody "Vain"!

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      • #4
        woah...emr...erm....
        how much?~~

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        • #5
          This one is more likely to make it to market in the short term;



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          • #6
            I got a really big hard-drive. It takes up two 5,25" slots.

            It's from 1983 and the capacity is only 4Mb.

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            • #7
              Hah! It's not a big drive unless it has 8" platters :P
              Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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              • #8
                How about the storage units of the old IBM 305 RAMAC's? They had fifty 24" platters and stored a whopping 5 MB.

                I believe they only cost $35,000/year to lease back in 1957

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                Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 14 September 2002, 01:49.
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