Re: OT: 1 Tera Byte

On a sunny day (Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:34:30 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Tim Shoppa
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On Jun 3, 2:01 pm, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ordered 1 TB USB2 external disk....
Was wondering where to put it...
It will free up 150 CD boxes on the bookshelf for a start....

Just not 100% sure about the reliability of USB2...

The hardware interface is just fine reliability wise.

Good.


But usually the "free software" that comes with the USB drives is
really crappy. If you can avoid using it - think "free and not worth
it" - you'll probably be happer.

I have decided to put reiserfs on it.
I use reiserfs on 2 systems, one 24/7, for 10 years... never a problem.
Maybe Iwill partition it perhaps, perhaps not...


And those 150 CD's were more archival if less convenient than the hard
drive.

Tim.

I suppose with digital media you have to copy over every so many years.
The CDs will go to the attic, there are now many hundreds of DVDs there too.

Maybe in a few years what comes after Tera? Peta? PetaByte disks...
by that time copy everything again...
Magnetic media should last a while unless dropped or something,
I did that with one hard disk.
That was a Maxtor, and that Maxtor sucked anyways, noisy.
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