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Title: OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: ChicoSelfs on March 15, 2004, 04:39:24 am

Hitachi announced the release of what is billed as the largest capacity 3.5-inch, 7,200rpm ATA hard drive, its 400GB Deskstar 7K400

http://clearstatic.org:2396/node/view/424

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: MarSies on March 15, 2004, 07:17:35 am

Looks good, a 400GB drive!

Could replace some of my disks.  ;D


MarSies .....

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: Penfold on March 15, 2004, 11:39:36 am

I've said it before & I'll say it again, why would you ever need more than 40Mb?!?!?!

 ;)

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: MarSies on March 15, 2004, 12:06:39 pm

You must be joking.  ;D

I agree if you only have basic Word dokuments. Besides having all my CD's in ape format I have a lot of AVI and mpeg files.
Because I dance and teach I have a lot of clips of me, performances, turnpatterns I teach and other things dancerelated stuff. I haven't mentioned my 8MP foto's yet.

Even if I wouldn't be doing this I would need more then a lousy 40GB.  :-\


MarSies .....

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: Berto on March 15, 2004, 12:08:24 pm

Quote from: MarSies on March 15, 2004, 12:06:39 pm

I agree if you only have basic Word dokuments. Besides having all my CD's in ape format I have a lot of AVI and mpeg files.
Because I dance and teach I have a lot of clips of me, performances, turnpatterns I teach and other things dancerelated stuff. I haven't mentioned my 8MP foto's yet.

Even if I wouldn't be doing this I would need more then a lousy 40GB.  :-\


MarSies .....

40GB? Penfold was talking about 40MB!!

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: Penfold on March 15, 2004, 12:09:49 pm

Ok, I confess so the last time I said that was 1989 or something...

Didn't even know what a gigabyte was then!

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: MarSies on March 15, 2004, 12:10:46 pm

No typo  ?
He might be right with MS-Dos 3.1 and the applications from those days


MarSies .....

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: DocLotus on March 15, 2004, 04:00:00 pm

"I've said it before & I'll say it again, why would you ever need more than 40Mb?!?!?!"

HUH... someone still running DOS ?

Bet you got Word Perfect 5 & LOTUS 1-2-3 ;D ;D

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: JimH on March 15, 2004, 04:01:44 pm

He was joking.  (Old timer talk.)

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: Penfold on March 15, 2004, 04:29:26 pm

eee that was when floppy discs were floppy & u had to crank yer pc half an hour before working on them, to let the valves heat up doncha know!

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: DocLotus on March 15, 2004, 04:29:55 pm

Oh, how it brings back fond memories ;D

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: pipsqueak on March 15, 2004, 07:30:02 pm

why not aviod the upgrade worries and go directly to the 1 terrabyte lacie disk?

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: bebop on March 15, 2004, 08:50:22 pm

ooohhhhh.....terrabytes!!  How I love the sound of that, it sort of rolls off the tongue.....I have to have it!!!   ;D

Title: Re:OT - 400Gb drive??
Post by: xen-uno on March 15, 2004, 10:39:04 pm

Well...size is relative (just ask Homer)...

Bart vs Australia...the episode where Bart calls a Australian family long distance collect and the Aussie government gets involved...Bart loses his pet frog when they get there which breeds and overruns the country

Scene: The family decides to eat a little at a local pub.

Homer: [to bartender] Hey! Give me one of those famous giant beers I've heard so much about.
[bartender puts a huge beer in front of him]
Bartender: Something wrong, yank?
Homer: No.  It's pretty big...I guess.
Marge: I'll just have a cup of coffee.
Bartender: Beer, it is.
Marge: No, I said "coffee".
Bartender: "Beer"?
Marge: [slowly] Coff-ee.
Bartender: Be-er?
Marge: C -- O --
Bartender: B -- E --

For more detail, see...
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html

10^-27