On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:32:38AM -0700, Chris Jenks wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > I *really* want disk storage that's larger than 4.7GB. > > > > I've been looking at Blu-ray, and thought maybe it's worth investigating. > > Maybe I've been extremely unlucky, but I've found optical media to be > extremely unreliable when the whole disk has to read perfectly. It may be > OK to have a few frames missing from a movie, but even just yesterday I > had to finish an Ubuntu install by hand because the desktop files were > corrupted on the CD. > > You could get 9GB by going to dual layer DVD, but I would recommend > using USB hard drives for your storage. The cost should be no more than > ten cents/GB (about the same cost as blu-ray), but it should be much more > reliable and more versatile too since you can rewrite. I just bought a > 1.5GB USB drive at Fry's for $129 with no rebate. You could probably save > slightly more by using an enclosure and internal SATA drives for storing > data.
I hope you mean a 1.5TB USB drive. --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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