Post AcaScOuDb7RKYEyvaa by dbolli@noagendasocial.com
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(DIR) Post #AcVnlCG4DuT8ZyCDom by Johncdvorak@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-05T21:34:33Z
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My wife just bought a 14TB stand alone USB drive from Costco for $149.95. Wow. Just over $10 a TB? Compare to when I was a kid.
(DIR) Post #AcVoInaISxKhtugI2i by mhjohnson@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-05T21:42:18Z
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@Johncdvorak In 1976 the college mainframe got a new 64KW (1/4 MB) core memory unit - $60K. Was dropped on delivery.I have a black & white picture standing next to it - leaning towards me & I'm "pushing" it.Took weeks to be replaced with a working one.I forget how much the 300 MB hard drives cost back then. IIRC, a similar price.
(DIR) Post #AcVodDiuzWSqlGS3FI by Dan_Ramos@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-05T21:45:59Z
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@Johncdvorak It's pretty crazy, right? I remember buying my ol' SyQuest 88 (that is... 88mb hard drive!) and I still had to buy an ICD SCSI to ACSI adapter to use it on my Atari 1040STe... and I might be wrong but I seem to remember it being about $200 or so. I was so happy with 88mb at the time! haha Man!
(DIR) Post #AcVol99Ts8SItpehJg by sp33dsk8r@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-05T21:47:25Z
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@Johncdvorak Storage wasn't cheap then. Wonder if it was outdated by the next year?
(DIR) Post #AcVp9sRZ88nsJquHq4 by al_kali@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-05T21:51:54Z
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@Dan_Ramos @Johncdvorak I remember being dumbfounded when I bought a 100mb hard drive for $110. (That's only $1.10 per mb!)Lol
(DIR) Post #AcVpapFd6l8QEjAqjA by mar77i@gleasonator.com
2023-12-05T21:56:45.324155Z
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@Johncdvorak 40MB Amiga Hard Drive was 2 thousand bucks at the end of the 80ies.It almost seems like we're freeloading on top of people who need to store a lot of things. Who would have thought I'd type in "THANK YOU BIG BROTHER" and mean it today...
(DIR) Post #AcVpb2bNTDFtdwRtvk by Dan_Ramos@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-05T21:56:48Z
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@al_kali @Johncdvorak Yeah but SyQuest 88mb hard drives used Winchester cartridge platters... so I was able to buy 88mb platter cartridges and switch out my hard drive data as if they were huge, fast floppy discs. Pretty great stuff in the late 80s/early 90s long before Zip drives came along to give us 100mb discs.
(DIR) Post #AcW0WaGbyZ3y6LoTjc by thisisthebreath@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-05T23:59:15Z
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@Johncdvorak serverpartdeals has 18TB bare drives for $160 and doesn’t charge tax to many states
(DIR) Post #AcW4bqbn2rrE34U6jI by sensei@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T00:45:01Z
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@Johncdvorak Indeed, I remember being excited that i could get a disk drive for $10/mb.
(DIR) Post #AcW65DM3ecJiwlh2Cu by BobbyGears@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T01:01:32Z
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@Johncdvorak “prices subject to change without notice”. Yes. They were about to get a lot lower.
(DIR) Post #AcWFFu4oZLnxvhnd0S by Lupi@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T02:44:19Z
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@Johncdvorak people these days are so wasteful with file management they never delete anything. I still haven't filled up my 1TB NAS drive.
(DIR) Post #AcWFMDEaFqwd5ENS1A by Sophistifunk@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T02:45:27Z
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@Lupi let me guess? Your ethernet goes uphill both ways?
(DIR) Post #AcWG3evbAKUBQUDKRk by Lupi@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T02:53:19Z
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@Sophistifunk I don't understand this joke
(DIR) Post #AcWQQp0eqc9ctbGQVc by Malarkey33@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T04:49:32Z
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@Sophistifunk @Lupi 386k is good enough for everyone!
(DIR) Post #AcWQYgwyhDAiDVINWa by Malarkey33@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T04:50:58Z
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@Lupi @Johncdvorak media files are huge now days. iPhones and androids shoot in double digit Mb each photo. 4k videos are double digit Gbs.
(DIR) Post #AcWnlcxh8N8uYblfeK by Lupi@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T09:11:01Z
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@Malarkey33 obviously bigger than what my Moto G22 spits out... and I take a lot of product photos
(DIR) Post #AcXDRIBxFDGF9mOz0i by UweHalfHand@norcal.social
2023-12-05T21:40:33Z
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@Johncdvorak Are you sure? It could be a 100GB drive, for example, with firmware that lies about the capacity. How would you tell?
(DIR) Post #AcXDRJJ56CYWcAkBl2 by greyknight33@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T13:58:39Z
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@UweHalfHand @Johncdvorak yup, found it. i cannot comment on the product itself but if it can support partitions, this could be a buyhttps://www.costco.com/seagate-14tb-expansion-desktop-hard-drive.product.4000203297.html
(DIR) Post #AcXW7RUSrSLFKiJAOW by SirPatrickOH@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T02:47:20Z
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@Johncdvorak There’s no evidence people want internal data storage.
(DIR) Post #AcXW7SFG3TlvfqCXKa by niclas@angrytoday.com
2023-12-06T17:27:58Z
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@SirPatrickOH The world will only need 8-10 computers.@Johncdvorak
(DIR) Post #AcXwL978ZtiHCcalkW by Peaceandprosperity@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T22:21:47Z
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@Johncdvorak Is it possible it's cheap because it's spinning media (instead of SSD)? HDD fell off so quickly, I can't help but wonder if this is new old stock
(DIR) Post #AcZgwyMTnIOfuLhfH6 by Sabex@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-07T18:38:46Z
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@Johncdvorak I remember visiting a military tank manufacturer for a school trip circa 1990, their whole business storage totalled 12GBProbably cost hundreds of thousands of pounds
(DIR) Post #AcaScOuDb7RKYEyvaa by dbolli@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-08T03:32:53Z
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@Johncdvorak When you were a kid, LOLs 🙂
(DIR) Post #AcfMey5C9Z6aINkyHo by MartinJJ@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-10T12:19:40Z
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@Johncdvorak There’s a lot going on about fake drives sold for cheap. With everything they appear to work just fine, but after a certain amount they simply don’t store anything. You’ll only notice if you try to get something back. I’ve seen them on Amazon also. When you complain they go test them and think it’s just fine. Next they remove the complaints. Drives become cheaper these days, but when it sounds to good to be true…Steve Gibson even created a testing tool. https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm🧐
(DIR) Post #AcfXJv6r6yREUMhQga by aj@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-10T14:19:08Z
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@MartinJJ @Johncdvorak I was thinking that Validrive was for Thumb drives or SD Cards only, but I just tried it on a 4 TB USB spinning drive and it ran just fine.