[Tfug] In need of hard drive info

[keith smith]

Hi All,

Thank you all for your help and guidance.

I went to SWS and much to my surprise I was able to buy a 1TB WD drive for $135.  Man look what happens when I'm not looking.

My first computer was a commodore 64 and my second computer was a garage clone 8088 upgraded to 640k of RAM, 2 - 360k - 5.25'' floppies, and a 14'' monochrome monitor.  Oh and it had a 300 baud modem.  It came with a 8 pin dot matrix printer and I think I paid about $1100 or so for it and which I think was a bargain.

The next year I added a  20M hard drive (Seagate 225 ?? or was it a 265).  I think it was almost $300.  Yikes!!!  And that was when $300 was a lot of money. 

10 years ago I think I paid close to $200 each for two 20Gig hard drives.

So today I bought 50 times as much storage as one of those drive would hold and it was cheaper than I would ever have expected.

Here is the scary part.  Each time I get a bigger drive I find I need one even bigger.  I wonder what the drives or medium will be like 10 years from now?

100TB for $59.00 ??  And the O/S takes up 1TB.

Thanks again!!
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Keith Smith




--- On Sat, 12/27/08, Linux Media <linuxmedia2 at aim.com> wrote:
From: Linux Media <linuxmedia2 at aim.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] In need of hard drive info
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 1:59 PM

Jim March wrote:
> Maxtor is Seagate's "bargain line" and I personally avoid. 
I've also
> had recent trouble with a Hitachi and I don't have a lot of love for
> Fuji.  Toshibas are supposed to be decent.

The only drives I've ever had that died were Maxtors. And I've had
several fail. The only Maxtors that didn't fail were a couple of external
drives I used. But they were only accessed when I needed to do the occasional
backup.

Good luck,
Rocco

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