Lie Ryan posted on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:17:42 +1100 as excerpted: > The 8G is small compared to the external's size (120G)
I think I mentioned it, but I still find it amazing... Fry's Electronics recently had a USB 1 TB external for $80. I snagged one. I'm not bragging, as after tax, that's about what they're going for on pricewatch.com (no tax but with shipping) now days as well; I'm just still so amazed that prices have come down that far. A TB disk for $80. It's just... weird! Meanwhile, 120 gig... is almost USB thumbdrive size now. When you said "small" 8 gig partition, I was thinking relative to a half terabyte drive, at least, and with TB drives at $80 (which I still find almost unbelievable), half TB would be models from a year or two ago. 8/120ths might be small, but it doesn't look so small when someone's thinking 8/500ths or 8/1000ths on the one hand, and has just done the GPT repartition I mentioned and felt incredibly foolish sticking a measly 1 MiB partition (the BIOS boot partition) on that 1 TB (931 GiB) drive! Let's see... 1 MiB of 931 GiB... 1/953,344th (actually less, I think it was actually 931.5 GiB or so, I could fit nearly 500 of those 1 MiB partitions in the rounding error!) of the drive. That'd be roughly comparable to a partition of a byte and a half (three nibbles, 12 bits) on a 1.44 MB floppy! (Tho talk about rounding error!) No wonder I felt a bit foolish! =:^) I guess "small" is relative, and definitely in the eyes of the beholder, isn't it? ... I still can't get over terabyte drives, for $80... I think I'm beginning to appreciate how my grandparents must have felt, seeing the car overtake the horse and buggy! I've known I was officially an "Old Fart" since the day I was enthusiastically talking about a particular album of a particular band (Styx, Killroy was Here, FWIW)... and suddenly realized that I wasn't sure which was here first, the guy I was talking to, or the album, as he was about old enough to have been /born/ that year! But still, a terabyte for under $100 with enough left over to stop for dinner on the way home... incredible! Talking about a terabyte still seems like it should be like talking about a million dollars, yeah, the figure exists, but it's something CEOs and governments use in their everyday conversation, not something I'm likely to ever see... but now that terabyte is under $100 with change left for dinner! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
