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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on July 13, 2004, 06:15:16 pm
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Heehee.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/13/lacie_enormo_disk/
Impressive. Imagine the amount of porn / downloaded movies / games / mp3s you could store on that........
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The enormous Bigger Disk Extreme (BDE) can transfer data at up to 85MBps
Niiiice :D
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Aha! So the Euro->Dollar exchange rate is 1.6769230769230769230769230769231!
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I have to wonder what the successor to the Bigger Disk Extreme will be, tho - the Mega Humungous Disk Extreme? Or the Biggester Disk Extreme? Or maybe even the Really-Rather-Large Disk Extreme?
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Aha! So the Euro->Dollar exchange rate is 1.6769230769230769230769230769231!
eh, where did you get this?
1 Euro = 1.23226 USD
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
You can't have it from the site cuz;
LaCie has yet to provide specific European pricing.
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Oh, err, no, of course it's not from the site. :nervous:
Now I wonder if there'd be any way to run RAID with that drive. :drevil:
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i'd say in the meantime, (at least until the price drops :p) it's probably worth it to say that you could buy six 250GB hard drives and an ATA card and just hook them all up :p
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Sounds more like the $->£ exchange rate.
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[color=66ff00]Anyone who's in a jealous mood stop reading now. ;)
I was fixing a laptop for my friend Colleen. The HDD had numerous errors and the DVD drive was shot so I ordered replacements for her and in order to safely back up the data on the HDD I got a £0.99 adapter off ebay that connects 2.5 drives to a standard IDE cable + molex.
After I'd repaired the laptop and gave it back to her I asked her what she wanted done with the drive, she told me to hold on to it if it was any good to me. I was going to chuck it considering the bad sectors but figured that it might be worthwhile trying to format a small partition for file transfer. I ran a whole bunch of tests on it and guess what, when the drive was not subject to the heat inside the laptop it ran 100%, no write errors.
I told her this and was going to give it back but she told me to keep it, I bought a 2.5 USB2 enclosure off ebay for £10 and now have a very nifty little mass storage unit.
30gigs for a tenner, not too shabby IMHO and proof that no good deed goes unpunished. ;)
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[q]Is that a hard drive in your pocket? [/q]
More than you know. ;7
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hah figured someone would say it. and i must say, you worded it pretty well. i would've said "wouldn't you like to know" or "something like that"...
good job :yes:
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:lol: Nice review. ;)
Maeg: :drool: I want a 30 gig drive for my laptop...;)
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Well the name of the thing sucks, but dang... TB... there's some serious growth potential right there. I'd have to defrag the thing though.
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Anyone who's in a jealous mood stop reading now. ;)
I was fixing a laptop for my friend Colleen. The HDD had numerous errors and the DVD drive was shot so I ordered replacements for her and in order to safely back up the data on the HDD I got a £0.99 adapter off ebay that connects 2.5 drives to a standard IDE cable + molex.
After I'd repaired the laptop and gave it back to her I asked her what she wanted done with the drive, she told me to hold on to it if it was any good to me. I was going to chuck it considering the bad sectors but figured that it might be worthwhile trying to format a small partition for file transfer. I ran a whole bunch of tests on it and guess what, when the drive was not subject to the heat inside the laptop it ran 100%, no write errors.
I told her this and was going to give it back but she told me to keep it, I bought a 2.5 USB2 enclosure off ebay for £10 and now have a very nifty little mass storage unit.
30gigs for a tenner, not too shabby IMHO and proof that no good deed goes unpunished. ;)
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Dude, you fix your friends' computers too? I can feel my pangs of loneliness fading! :D
Seriously though, that's cool. Put that HD to good use... put HLP forum backups on it or something. ;)
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Oh, for a moment I thought we were talking about holographic storage.
But geez, that's one crazy HD all right. :cool:
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A little note here: Those are 4 stripe raided disks. Meaning that if one fails, everything goes. The whole 1.6 TB. Sure, if you pay a few grand you could get some stuff restored, but let's say it'll be gone. If you spend that cash on a small case, cheapass mobo and pro, and a PCI-->SATA card, you could get nore reliability for the same price, and probably more storage too. Sure, you couldn't take it with you that easily, but this thing is 5 KG. That ain't little. My laptop weighs 3.5, and even that is something you note when it's 35C outside and you're on a bike.
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last time i saw a HDD that large in physical size, it was only about 20 meg:p and used as a doorstop.
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Originally posted by Setekh
Dude, you fix your friends' computers too? I can feel my pangs of loneliness fading! :D
Ditto. But that's what they get for being retards ;)
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Ugh. Friday night, a classmate of mine hosted an end of year party. Me, living 12 km away, and without a driving license/parent willing to drive, slepped(sp?) there. Now, I worked on the network in that house before, but the moment her dad saw my long haired head in the morning, I got stuck fixing 3 different computers, diagnosing one CD drive as dead, and installing adaware and spybot S&D on all systems. (150 hits for adaware on the first scan, go security!)
Of all the things you can do on a holiday, I always end up lying under a desk, a screwdriver in my hand, flashlight between the teeth, trying to reach some IDE device's jumper.
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hmm sounds like what i have to do on my computer at least once every year. makes it harder that its a mini-atx case.
thats also a nice hard drive. i want it but i wouldn't have the money or the firewire
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Nice, I'll take one ;)
But in 20 years that kind HD's will be Normal and Price dropped
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Ditto. But that's what they get for being retards ;)
and that's what we get for being nerds/geeks :D
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Originally posted by aldo_14
I have to wonder what the successor to the Bigger Disk Extreme will be, tho - the Mega Humungous Disk Extreme? Or the Biggester Disk Extreme? Or maybe even the Really-Rather-Large Disk Extreme?
BATTLEDISK GALACTICA
[color=66ff00]Cue theme music.
Anyhow, yeah I fix my friends computers pretty often. Letsee, over the last while I've:
Helped my friend Colleen with her laptop (new HDD, DVD-rom, winxp install and a whole lot of other horrible software that makes me shudder)
Assisted my friend Paul to build his athlon based computer (he's tres happy)
Fixed my cousin Mark's internet connection (he switched to DSL)
Managed to undo my friend Gary's partitioning debacle where he somehow changed the heads/sectors in the drive's firmware (took me 12 straight hours, 9pm to 9am to identify the problem and then google the tool to fix it and I've been mucking about with drives since '98).
Fixed my friend's sister's laptop (adware/spyware/Microsoft ware (WMP 9.0 :no: ) ridden)
That and I've been gradually learning linux while I've been installing Gentoo on my new laptop (which I'm typing this message up on now, whayee! :D )
Of course this is but a drop in the water... :sigh:
To be honest I love helping people out but I've been looking at this page more and more often lately: Link (www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/)
Wow, new use of brackets record. :D
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Originally posted by Stealth
and that's what we get for being nerds/geeks :D
Well said!
Actually I've one the eternal gratitude of one of my mates mums by fixing her family PC (the same family PC that wasn't set up with Norton right... they eventually took it to a specialist to look at it (nothing to do with what I was doing to it) and ended up finding over 150 assorted bots/spyware/virii on there. Suffice to say, he purged it of them and it works properly now ;).
Also helped to build another mates PC but - just as his luck - he ended up with a dodgy part that ended up frying his CPU and graphics processor, luckily his machine is also now up and running.
Suffice to say - everyone needs a geek once in a while ;)
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Meag: does it make me a geek for knowing what the link was the moment I saw thinkgeek in the URL?
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Originally posted by kasperl
Meag: does it make me a geek for knowing what the link was the moment I saw thinkgeek in the URL?
[color=66ff00]Totally, $deity bless you.
BTW I totally have to start using the 'you have failed TSM 58008, failing to correctly spell my hard to spell name' line. :D
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
BATTLEDISK GALACTICA
[color=66ff00]Cue theme music.
Anyhow, yeah I fix my friends computers pretty often. Letsee, over the last while I've:
Helped my friend Colleen with her laptop (new HDD, DVD-rom, winxp install and a whole lot of other horrible software that makes me shudder)
Assisted my friend Paul to build his athlon based computer (he's tres happy)
Fixed my cousin Mark's internet connection (he switched to DSL)
Managed to undo my friend Gary's partitioning debacle where he somehow changed the heads/sectors in the drive's firmware (took me 12 straight hours, 9pm to 9am to identify the problem and then google the tool to fix it and I've been mucking about with drives since '98).
Fixed my friend's sister's laptop (adware/spyware/Microsoft ware (WMP 9.0 :no: ) ridden)
That and I've been gradually learning linux while I've been installing Gentoo on my new laptop (which I'm typing this message up on now, whayee! :D )
Of course this is but a drop in the water... :sigh:
To be honest I love helping people out but I've been looking at this page more and more often lately: Link (www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/)
Wow, new use of brackets record. :D
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Ever had a dumb relative phone up to ask why a game isn't working - and then revealing that they didn't check the minimum specs on the back of the bloody box?
Or indeed asking the meaning of every single Windows error message - as if I know what randomname.dll is, and why it's missing!
(same relative also asked me what a strange 'computer connection cord' from their mp3 player was. It was a little line of string/rope for holding it by)
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Originally posted by kasperl
Ugh. Friday night, a classmate of mine hosted an end of year party. Me, living 12 km away, and without a driving license/parent willing to drive, slepped(sp?) there. Now, I worked on the network in that house before, but the moment her dad saw my long haired head in the morning, I got stuck fixing 3 different computers, diagnosing one CD drive as dead, and installing adaware and spybot S&D on all systems. (150 hits for adaware on the first scan, go security!)
Of all the things you can do on a holiday, I always end up lying under a desk, a screwdriver in my hand, flashlight between the teeth, trying to reach some IDE device's jumper.
CD Drives can easly be fixed. Try to clean the lens first otherwise let them buy a new laser unit for 20 Euro's at Nedis.
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My friends also always ask if i can fix there computer or laydown a network. Even my moms friends are asking me to fix there stuff. I charge them except for my friends. And when i do charity work for roemeniën. Then i'll do it for free to fix old boxes so they can be send to schools etc.
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Meh, my Uncle used to phone to let us know he'd sent an Email, he bought a 'cheap' computer system, registered Windows and got a nasty letter from Microsoft. The guy who had set it up, in the meantime, had left the country ;)
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Daan: I could hear the CD slipping, and it was a 5 year old drive. It's pretty much the way my own drives are going.
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I got about 20 spindels at work that are good and not being used anymore:D
But your right if it's 5 years old i would buy a new one.
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'Windows needs to scan your disk for errors'
'Please feel free to get yourself a cup of tea.'
'And possibly some toast.'
..... ;)
Seriously though, nice big drive, got to wait for the price to drop though :(
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I once worked in a computer repair store, and a customer came in with her computer and a CD. She asked what to do with the CD, and I'm like "put it in the drive". Apparently, this is the first she's heard of this fancy new invention called a CD drive, which just happens to be in her computer. So, she's staring at the computer and trying to figure out just what the hell I'm talking about. She finally gets it through her head that the floppy drive is a bit too small to fit the CD, so she asks "if it that thing on the top" and points to her CDROM. Yes, I say, thats it. "Oh, so how do I put it in then?" "Well, you have to open it first". "Is that what the little button does? I've never pushed it before". "Yes, thats the one, you push that and then put the CD in".
...some people.
BTW, kasperl, I didn't know having long hair is a sign of 1337 computer knowledge. Ususally, I assosciate long hair with hippies or emo kids.
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Originally posted by Rictor
BTW, kasperl, I didn't know having long hair is a sign of 1337 computer knowledge. Ususally, I assosciate long hair with hippies or emo kids.
same