On 12/5/2009 7:52 AM, Duncan wrote:
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!
If you mean this guy:
http://www.frys.com/product/5832713;jsessionid=IEhzBaKBRCPLT6YdVM4dqw**.node2?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
it wouldn't fit into my pocket, wouldn't it?
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,
A quarter terrabytes (250GB). This is not the first time I messed up
when stating my external's size. Still small, but better at least. The
120 GB is my laptop's (which are quite a few years old now).
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!
But I felt even more foolish to have to reboot to the the OS in my
harddisk just to copy a 50kB file to my NTFS partition because my
friend's Macbook cannot write to NTFS. GPT only helps to boot, it
doesn't make a Macbook read from NTFS partition or a Gentoo LiveCD write
to NTFS.
