On Wed, April 6, 2005 10:17 am, Derek Smithies said: > Hi, > One of the mistakes made in the past with computers is the thinking: > > "how will anyone ever need a capacity more than X" > -e.g. won't need more than 640kbytes of memory. Bill Gates, 1980something. > > Sadly, as the available capacity has grown, the usage has grown also. > === > We currently have many digital cameras on the market. In a few years, you > will be able to buy video cameras that store to flash. These will require > serious disk space. The big hurdle at the moment is that they are all formatted using fat, and the supporting applications will have to be rewritten to support fat32, ext2... when they go over the 1GB mark. > > ==== > with several drives, and a bit of nice RAIDing, I can get faster access > with error correcting backup sectors. yeah... > > ==== > The cost of hard drives has continued to drop, and has reached a point > where hard drives are now candidates for backup systems. We can have a > discussion on the merits of hard drives over tape systems for backups. I > would rather not, but... > > Consider this: a 1TB drive (or two) on the server and everything is copied > to the drive. On each subsequent night, an incremental backup to the > drive.. With such a system, you can very very quickly (compared to tape) > go back to examine some file as of some date. Already doing this to 250MB drives. Removeable, of course! All the tape library vendors are going to get increasingly upset as their dead clever indexing systems become more and more outdated. > > So 1TB drives:: yes please. > > Derek. > ========================================================== >> > Seriously I have no idea what anyone could want with a desktop with >> one >> > Tb except for excessive (illegal) downloading of movies/music. >> > > -- > Derek Smithies Ph.D. > IndraNet Technologies Ltd. > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ph +64 3 365 6485 > Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ > > >
Eee when I were a lad, hard disks were 5 or 10MB... Steve -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
