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That reminds me I have to get a 1 TB HD soon, so I can archive billions of files without the tedium of going thru them for duplicates. (A G4, a G5 and a macbook + 4 x La Cie 250 gig externals). After that I will install a better automated system for back up. The 1 TB HD's are less than 100 Beuros these days.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 24th, 2010 at 01:15:03 PM EST
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exactly this price dor external 1 TB HD. just i cannot imagine what i can store in it (all my programs and electronic pdf-library occupies less than 30GB), but it's maybe good way to throw away all my CDs where I kept archive photos. and still it will be empty.

by FarEasterner on Sun Jan 24th, 2010 at 02:05:33 PM EST
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Video editing tends to decimate HD space rather rapidly.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 24th, 2010 at 02:14:38 PM EST
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A Western Digital WD1TB costs 89€ via Finnish netshops - a bit more in the store.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 24th, 2010 at 02:18:12 PM EST
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Ha !! When I first started at Nat west bank 20 years ago we had a football sized computer floor which, including near and offline, had 15Tb of data storage. and that was considered colossal !!

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jan 24th, 2010 at 04:54:28 PM EST
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Do you mean football pitch sized?

Getting 15TB inside a football twenty years ago would indeed have been colossal. :)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Jan 24th, 2010 at 05:09:54 PM EST
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Its a big change from my employers in the early/mid 80's buying a hard drive for the early ICL PC clones that I was testing, Just over £1000 for 40 Mb... (And that was in real money :)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 27th, 2010 at 05:17:25 AM EST
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