From: Hugo Vanwoerkom on
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/15/2010 03:20 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:59:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 06/15/2010 02:17 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>>> On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data
>>>>>> with the
>>>>>> most critical ~400GB backed up is definitely preferable than no
>>>>>
>>>>> Geez, I remember when I couldn't fill up a 40_MB_ drive, and before
>>>>> that when I was in awe of the KayPro 10.
>>>>
>>>> It wasn't too long ago (4-5 years?) that I built my current server
>>>> with ~600GB array and I figured I'd *never* fill that up! Hah! I'm
>>>> eyeing some 1TB drives to reconfigure the thing (to get rid of RAID-5
>>>> and grow a little). It's not full, but a little more elbow room would
>>>> be nice. Sheesh
>>>>
>>>
>>> 1TB is soooo 3 years ago!
>>
>> gah!
>>
>>>
>>> NewEgg is selling 2TB Hitachis for $120 with promo code...
>>
>> I know it... how can you not b uy at that price, right?
>>
>
> Especially when I *also* remember being so impressed when 1GB drives hit
> $100.
>

stake in the ground: I'll *never* buy TB disks :-)

Hugo






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From: Ron Johnson on
On 06/15/2010 12:56 AM, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
[snip]
> One good reason is that I am 73 coming on 4 and pensions are not sufficient to
> support my buying larger HDD's.

Newegg is selling the "HITACHI SimpleDrive Mini 320GB USB 2.0 Blue
Dusk External Hard Drive" for $55 (w/ Promo code, and free shipping,
on Fathers Day sale).

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