Author Topic: Is that a hard drive in your pocket? (Read 2515 times)

aldo_14 · **on:** July 13, 2004, 06:15:16 pm

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........

Tiara · **Reply #1 on:** July 13, 2004, 06:19:50 pm

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The enormous Bigger Disk Extreme (BDE) can transfer data at up to 85MBps

Niiiice

WMCoolmon · **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2004, 06:24:10 pm

Aha! So the Euro->Dollar exchange rate is 1.6769230769230769230769230769231!

aldo_14 · **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2004, 06:27:29 pm

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?

Tiara · **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2004, 06:30:06 pm

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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;

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LaCie has yet to provide specific European pricing.

WMCoolmon · **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2004, 06:35:15 pm

Oh, err, no, of course it's not from the site.

Now I wonder if there'd be any way to run RAID with that drive.

Stealth · **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2004, 06:41:17 pm

i'd say in the meantime, (at least until the price drops

) 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

aldo_14 · **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2004, 06:41:33 pm

Sounds more like the $->£ exchange rate.

Martinus · **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2004, 07:12:40 pm

[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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Knight Templar · **Reply #9 on:** July 13, 2004, 09:51:02 pm

[q]Is that a hard drive in your pocket? [/q]

More than you know.

Stealth · **Reply #10 on:** July 13, 2004, 10:50:30 pm

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

WMCoolmon · **Reply #11 on:** July 14, 2004, 02:10:22 am

Nice review.

Maeg: :drool: I want a 30 gig drive for my laptop...

Fineus · **Reply #12 on:** July 14, 2004, 02:15:15 am

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.

Setekh · **Reply #13 on:** July 14, 2004, 02:53:18 am

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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!

Seriously though, that's cool. Put that HD to good use... put HLP forum backups on it or something.

kv1at3485 · **Reply #14 on:** July 14, 2004, 04:05:11 am

Oh, for a moment I thought we were talking about holographic storage.

But geez, that's one crazy HD all right.

kasperl · **Reply #15 on:** July 14, 2004, 04:06:10 am

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.

Turnsky · **Reply #16 on:** July 14, 2004, 04:30:24 am

last time i saw a HDD that large in physical size, it was only about 20 meg:p and used as a doorstop.

Fineus · **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2004, 04:47:11 am

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Originally posted by Setekh
Dude, you fix your friends' computers too? I can feel my pangs of loneliness fading!

Ditto. But that's what they get for being retards

kasperl · **Reply #18 on:** July 14, 2004, 05:30:51 am

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.

silverwolf · **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2004, 08:44:42 am

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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