large disks

[dsrtao]

The new disks arrived. I'm pretty sick; I had just about enough logic to plug them in to an external caddy and start running a filesystem create with bad blocks checking.

(The new Western Digital "green" drives are very, very quiet. Even quieter than Seagates.)

I was upset at how the counter was labeled in hundredths of a percent, and it was taking a significant amount of time to do each click. Then I remembered that these are terabyte disks. 1% = 10 gigabytes. 0.1%=1 gigabyte. 4 seconds for 0.01% is 25MB/s, about 1/3 the speed I expect to get when plugged into a SATA bus, perfectly adequate for USB.

Going back to bed.

Comments

[its-just-me.livejournal.com]

I have to ask - what does one do with a terrabyte?

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

Digitize all of our CDs with no compression. Then we'll store the hardcopies.

Also, record tons of tv shows and keep them around for the kids.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Digitize Terra.

progress

[robertdfeinman.livejournal.com]

And to think the first disk drive I ever used was a 1 Meg removable in it's own outer jacket - 14" diameter, sort of like a overgrown 3.5" floppy.

We were really pleased when we got the 80Meg stacks that came in a cover that made the whole thing look like a cake holder. We called the drive a washing machine since it was top loading.

Actually the first system I used that wasn't tape and card based was at MIT and had a 32K drum for storage. We time shared over a phone line so I didn't really get to see it until it was decommissioned.