From: Hugo Vanwoerkom on 17 Jun 2010 10:00 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 > $100. > stake in the ground: I'll *never* buy TB disks :-) Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hvd9m3$dfk$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Ron Johnson on 17 Jun 2010 12:10
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). -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C1A478D.9000801(a)cox.net |