Just scored a 1 TERRABYTE hard drive -

[kaitsdad]

Just picked up one of these - a 1 TERRABYTE usb external hard drive made by Western Digital.

Comes formatted FAT32, just reformat NTFS, and it's good to go for those larger files.

Now I can back up all the computers we have sitting around the casa.

$269.98 after coupons, plus tax. Free shipping.

WD 1 TerraByte USB hard drive

And to those long in the tooth IT guys out there, remember when ?

 

[GunMD]

Pretty cool. I was just noticing last night that backing up my primary PC is putting me over the 100GB mark right now for a full backup. Won't be long 'till I start looking for something larger to store my backups on.

 

[twowheelnut]

Wow! Just think of all the pron you can store now!

 

[escapefjrtist]

Wow! Just think of all the pron you can store now!

What's a "pron" if I may ask?

--G

 

[wheatonFJR]

Wow! Just think of all the pron you can store now!

What's a "pron" if I may ask?

--G

It's what happens when you type one-handed...

 

[escapefjrtist]

Wow! Just think of all the pron you can store now!

What's a "pron" if I may ask?

--G

It's what happens when you type one-handed...

Okay, gotcha...

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

You guys back up stuff?

 

[bramfrank]

Up in the land of the loonie I got a 500 GB USB drive for $99 - I was running out of space on the 300 Gb one with the music and movies on it . . . . 2 year warranty to boot!.

Only one problem - for some reason it doesn't like individual files longer than 4 gigs - I have one movie that large and it choked . . . go figure.

 

[kaitsdad]

Up in the land of the loonie I got a 500 GB USB drive for $99 - I was running out of space on the 300 Gb one with the music and movies on it . . . . 2 year warranty to boot!.
Only one problem - for some reason it doesn't like individual files longer than 4 gigs - I have one movie that large and it choked . . . go figure.

That's cause it's formatted for FAT32. 4gb file size limit. To use larger files, you will need to format the drive to NTFS.

And I'd also like to know what 'pron' is. :blink:

 

[GunMD]

urbandictionary

 

[twowheelnut]

My bad, I actually misspelled it... pr0n. Betters?

 

[Kaelaria]

Bah - It's only $251 on buy.com !

 

[slapnpop]

why buy a single 1tb drive when you can get dual 500's for 104.94 each (today). That way when the external drive dies you'll only lose 1/2 of your data! :lol:

 

[Calimus]

The only pisser with that drive is that it's USB. I have the 500gb version, but of the premire trim level which adds firewire. For the ammounts of data that I transfer, the firewire is where it's at. Sadly, I'm now looking at building a small raid server so I can backup my network. I have 1tb worth of storage on my PC alone.

An as for the remember why back when, yea, I remember when I bought my first 250mb hard drive for around $400 and the 8mb stick of ram for the same machine cost me $90.

 

[bramfrank]

To Kaitsdad: Thanks for pointing out the FAT32 limits - it's been a while I guess and the brain cells are not what they used to be . . . the drives have been converted and take the huge file just fine now.

The only pisser with that drive is that it's USB. I have the 500gb version, but of the premire trim level which adds firewire. For the ammounts of data that I transfer, the firewire is where it's at. Sadly, I'm now looking at building a small raid server so I can backup my network. I have 1tb worth of storage on my PC alone.
An as for the remember why back when, yea, I remember when I bought my first 250mb hard drive for around $400 and the 8mb stick of ram for the same machine cost me $90.

You sir, are just a child.

I remember when $250 bought 4K of dynamic RAM in kit form.

I bought a 5 meg 14" winchester, single platter drive (for $5,000) for my 6800 running FLEX from SouthWest Technical Computers - and THAT was for a home computer - not my first though. The first was (I believe) a SCMP from National or an 1802 -can't quite recall which came first.

I also remember spending $4,000 for an 80 Meg 5" hard drive from a company called Vertex - my first 'humungously large' drive - we wondered if we'd ever be able to fill it with data - it was for a business system we were developing. I still have that machine here somewhere and it works (or diid the last time I fired it up a few years ago), though it evolved to a 6809 and has 256K of RAM in it - it supports up to 16 simultaneous terminal users and worked very well.

My first 5" hard drive was a 5 meg unit and my first floppies were 5" single sided, single density and those cost about $1250, though for the business applications we supplied the much more expensive 8" floppies that were (amazingly) double sided - we were lucky to have 32K of RAM and we managed to run WYSIWYG screen editors and spreadsheet programs in the available memory.

 

[AStar]

Just picked up one of these - a 1 TERRABYTE usb external hard drive made by Western Digital.
Comes formatted FAT32, just reformat NTFS, and it's good to go for those larger files.

Now I can back up all the computers we have sitting around the casa.

$269.98 after coupons, plus tax. Free shipping.

WD 1 TerraByte USB hard drive

And to those long in the tooth IT guys out there, remember when ?

DUH, Whats a Terrabyte and FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[dean]

good score.

i asked around to the computer-savvy guys on another list i belong to, about hard drives, as i wanted to add one. most said to stay away from western digital and maxtor, as they fail fairly routinely. most suggested to stick with seagate or another brand, i think it starts with L. so, just a heads up, don't rely completely on the new hard drive or you may get in a bind. they also suggested instead of getting one large hd, daisy chain two or more, and to get eSATA, goes much faster.

oddly, when i did a search, turns out maxtor is made by seagate. so i was less confident in buying seagate, but i did, just not a maxtor.

i ended up with a seagate pro external 320GB with usb2.0, firewire (for my canon mini-dv camcorder) and eSATA for $120 from newegg.

 

[James Burleigh]

And to those long in the tooth IT guys out there, remember when ?

I'm not an IT guy, but I do distinctly remember a 10-MB external hard drive the size of a toaster.

 

[Ari Rankum]

Just picked up one of these - a 1 TERRABYTE usb external hard drive made by Western Digital.
Comes formatted FAT32, just reformat NTFS, and it's good to go for those larger files.

And to those long in the tooth IT guys out there, remember when ?

That's a hella benchmark. I still remember the $1/GB barrier falling. Back in 2003, someone sent out a company-all email that went something like, "Jesus Christ, why am I getting a complaint about exceeding my 10MB limit on my inbox?!?!?! We're talking about 1 penny worth of hard drive space people!!!!" Loved that.

I may have to go get one just to achieve the milestone (plus store way more pr0n!)

I remember 20 MB Winchester drives attached to a Data General Eclipse minicomputer that were the size of washing machines. Back then, pr0n was in ASCII.

Why do NTFS when you can do ext3 ???