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1 TB optical discs on the way
Level42:
Pffff....my first HD was a 10 Mbyte (yes Megabyte). With a special controller (RLL) I could format it to 15 MB !!!! That was huge than.....it's like with money, if you get more, you need more....
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Level42 on July 01, 2007, 02:45:42 pm ---Pffff....my first HD was a 10 Mbyte (yes Megabyte). With a special controller (RLL) I could format it to 15 MB !!!! That was huge than.....it's like with money, if you get more, you need more....
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You would have a job since RLL (Run Length Limited) drives were proprietory to 10MB. I never saw a 15MB RLL drive - you probably mean the MFM drives that was 15MB. My first EDSI was 20 MB and I thought I was a cool dude. Both were Seagates.
Yeah I had two of those full height drives, daisy chained with those huge terminators that looked like a 6510 processor. Ahh those were the days.
To think of it, now we are at the TB stage, whats next Ecta Bybe Drives?
stuckpixel:
I for one, welcome the oncoming of extabyte hard drives. More space = easier.
I love that my cell phone has 2 gigs of storage in it (micro SD card).
Seriously, Terabyte media? That is insane. Don't even want to think about how expensive that junk will be (dual layer DVDs are still a bit spendy!)
NightGod:
I can't even imagine building a computer with less than a TB of storage these days (I tend to fill up 250MB drives about every three months with movies and TV shows-more storage = less time swapping drives down the line). Being able to drop a TB on an optical drive would be a dream come true-as it is today, DVDs are useless for me when it comes to off-line storage of media, I'm better off getting another cheap 250+ drive and dropping it on there and keeping that on the shelf. The only time I burn CDs/DVDs is when I want to give a couple of episodes of something to a friend, I don't think I've used more than 25 pieces of optical media in the last two years.
cowguy:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on July 01, 2007, 03:14:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on July 01, 2007, 02:45:42 pm ---Pffff....my first HD was a 10 Mbyte (yes Megabyte). With a special controller (RLL) I could format it to 15 MB !!!! That was huge than.....it's like with money, if you get more, you need more....
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You would have a job since RLL (Run Length Limited) drives were proprietory to 10MB. I never saw a 15MB RLL drive - you probably mean the MFM drives that was 15MB. My first EDSI was 20 MB and I thought I was a cool dude. Both were Seagates.
Yeah I had two of those full height drives, daisy chained with those huge terminators that looked like a 6510 processor. Ahh those were the days.
To think of it, now we are at the TB stage, whats next Ecta Bybe Drives?
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I'm pretty sure next on the ladder is petabyte and I think you mean exabyte. instead of ecta