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Friday, December 20, 2013

Tech Update!

Well I got this about 30 minutes ago from the brown truck of happiness. 






































I'm in the tech biz but I had to back up for a moment and be stunned. One day delivery from an Internet order. A 1 TERABYTE hard drive for my computer?!?!

Lets put this into perspective. 

The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Module had a computer that had 2K of memory. I have for under 80 bucks a TeraByte harddrive. The numbers look like this:

 

















I continue to be amazed.Take a look at this old school pilot fly his craft even when the computer is telling him that it can't handle it.1202 Alarm.


7 comments:

  1. i've been using 4TB drives at work.

    the amount of data one of these things can hold is astounding. absolutely astounding.

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  2. Particularly when said 4TB drive fails.
    Get another one K, and back up to it frequently.
    It will take a while, but eventually you will arrive at the hundreds of GB of data stored.

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  3. I love living in the future. Now if I can just get my television to read something other than FAT32, I'll be happy.

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  4. Yep, things have changed a bit...

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  5. I just bought the very same drive for my wife's computer. Her old one died. Amazing drive at an amazing price. Also, bought a 2 TB for media. The total storage I have at home is now 7.5 TB.

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  6. I have two TB backup drives at work, even though my PC is only a 500GB model. They were under $100 each, even two years ago when drives that size were relatively new.

    Remember when a 40MB drive seemed huge? :)

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  7. I started in the earliest days of home computers. I had an S-100 bus computer with a cassette interface before my Commodore 64. Oh, the stories.

    So, yeah, having a desktop with a Terabyte drive in it is astounding, not to mention all the other great tech toys.

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