Todays storge devices

GraphyFotoz

Unreal......320GB Maxtor External USB drive at Staples for $120!
(You better believe I got my butt down there and got one!):ivar
I can remember the days when me and my buddy went nutz over a Maxtor 340mb HD on sale for $200!
We thought we'd never fill em! :rofl

Now they make flash drives you can put in your pocket that hold more than that.
Dang site cheaper too.
Boy how computer tech has come along!!

rosselliot

that is a good deal!

I saw in Mac Addict the other day something truly INCREDIBLE!!!!! it's 1 TERABYTE storage device!!! that's ONE THOUSAND GIGABYTES!!!! wow! and it's at B&H for like $419!!!!!!! I'm saving up right now. I just bought a brand new 17" Mac Book Pro...so I need wait a while...I have my tech goody for now. haha.

the link to the TB storage:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=Search&A=details&Q=&sku=461975&is=REG&addedTroughType=search

well, congrats on your new storage device! I need one really bad...

- RE

System

That's a really great price on the WD 1 TB drive. You get dual drive RAID for a mirrored 500gb of storage.

GraphyFotoz

Yeah far cry from my internal drive of 80GB.
Pain to add a bigger drive and re-install everything.
Gotta love USB drives....saves a ton of work and you can take it with ya or if ya get another computer....just plug it in and ya gotta all your stuff.

1000GB....holy crap!
It'd take a week to defrag it!
Can't say I'd never fill it....thought that back when we got that 340mb!
But then again Windows 3.1 was nowhere the size or complexity of XP.
Yes it was a RAM hog even then tho.
Computers sure have come a looooong way since 1990 when I 1st got into it. Makes ya wonder where they will be in another 15yrs or so!

rosselliot

in 15 years or so they're obsolete, they probably won't even be called computers anymore. the next big thing will have appeared. it'll probably be very much like a computer...but no worries, no problems, no waiting, just perfection.

but I have a question...if you have a mac, when you put stuff on an external hard drive, do you have defrag it? or is that necessary when it is with a mac?

- RE

RogersDA

A lot of good deals on external drive units. I've go 1+TB sitting on my desk right now.

But, what makes the CMS solution so darn expensive? Anybody know?

claudermilk

GraphyFotoz wrote:

Yeah far cry from my internal drive of 80GB.
Pain to add a bigger drive and re-install everything.
Gotta love USB drives....saves a ton of work and you can take it with ya or if ya get another computer....just plug it in and ya gotta all your stuff.

1000GB....holy crap!
It'd take a week to defrag it!
Can't say I'd never fill it....thought that back when we got that 340mb!
But then again Windows 3.1 was nowhere the size or complexity of XP.
Yes it was a RAM hog even then tho.
Computers sure have come a looooong way since 1990 when I 1st got into it. Makes ya wonder where they will be in another 15yrs or so!

Aw heck, I remember when the IBM PC XT hit with it's HUGE 10MB drive. Built in!! OMFG! How would we ever use all that space?!

wxwax

Well, if the new 1Ds is truly a 22mp camera... we'll need all that storage and more. Each generation of cameras demands faster processors, more RAM and bigger hard drives. I don't see the cycle slowing down anytime soon.

To the already hefty cost of owning a dSLR, add computer obsolescence to lenses, tripods etc.

Pixoul

Ha. The wife just authorized the purchase of a 2 TB RAID this week...

colourbox

Always buy half what you can afford, because you'll need to buy the same amount of media all over again just to back it all up...and that's if you live dangerously enough to only have one backup...

gus

colourbox wrote:

and that's if you live dangerously enough to only have one backup...

So wheres that leave me with no back up what-so-ever for the last 7 years ?

Art Scott

gus wrote:

So wheres that leave me with no back up what-so-ever for the last 7 years ?

Well its kinda like swimmin' wit da gators 'n' crocs and making small gashes about your body to spill small amounts of blood........

But from the pics of the comet ya like to live on the edgy wild and dangerous side of life.