Current harddisk design: biggest hunk of crap ever?

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  1. Pygo

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    And yet so very small... Sounds nice. Hope it works great. any idea on how it works? or is it confidential and stuff???
     
    Pygo, 18 Dec 2003
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  2. 8-BALL

    8-BALL Theory would dictate.....

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    To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how much I'm supposed to know, so I guess I'll leave it at that.

    8-ball
     
    8-BALL, 19 Dec 2003
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  3. Pygo

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    Alright, I can live with that... or at least until the technology comes out ;)
     
    Pygo, 19 Dec 2003
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  4. 8-BALL

    8-BALL Theory would dictate.....

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    I'll see what I can find out about what it might bring to you and me the users as well as time frames.

    8-ball
     
    8-BALL, 19 Dec 2003
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  5. Pygo

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    Cool. :clap:
     
    Pygo, 19 Dec 2003
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  6. JADS

    JADS Et arma et verba vulnerant

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    Sounds like MRAM to me :)

    MRAM

    HP Storage Research Page
     
    JADS, 19 Dec 2003
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  7. 8-BALL

    8-BALL Theory would dictate.....

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    That's pretty much it.

    It's strange cos I've only been hearing about it from the very hush hush research end of things.

    They're a d@mn good research group though, and they should produce some interesting results.

    8-ball
     
    8-BALL, 19 Dec 2003
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  8. [cibyr]

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    http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/article.jsp?rp=2&id=mg16822660.800
    this was in 2000, so where is this stuff?
     
    [cibyr], 19 Dec 2003
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  9. Pygo

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    Locked away in my room.. I stole it... MWaaaahahhahahhahahahhahahahahhaha!!!

    ok.. i duno. but sounds pretty nice. and I like the part were it has multiple heads, so the more heads the device has, the faster it is. When I say heads, I mean the probes
     
    Pygo, 19 Dec 2003
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  10. [cibyr]

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    yeah, in a 3 1/4" drive you could have ****loads of em, and massive amounts of storage too
     
    [cibyr], 19 Dec 2003
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  11. Pygo

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    500 gigs pear square inch :naughty: :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

    I could have the hugest drive ever.. I would dedicate a room in my house esp. for this... that would be cool :rock:
     
    Pygo, 19 Dec 2003
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  12. glennd_05

    glennd_05 What's a Dremel?

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    it was a ong time ago, but i reemember reading an article i found on OCA about PCI cards that you plugged RAM into and then utilized it as a HD. it was extreme and the guy spent like $500 buying dimms to go on it and only had like 10gb of storage space. the only problem w/ that though is the bottleneck w/ the pci. maybe i'll google that and find more info

    -glenn

    edit: here it is Drive
     
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  13. Sid

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    How much are we talking for the 1gig disk?

    I know that the larger capacities cost thousands...But I was thinking that a 1gig disk might be affordable for some of us as a system drive.

    No one really has ever been too clear about the prices on these.
     
    Sid, 19 Dec 2003
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  14. Pygo

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    I think a two gig drive would be better, since After I installed windows, disk usage was 1.1 gigs

    EDIT: Although, I think it would be GREAT to use as a swap partition... or um drive for the swap file.
     
    Pygo, 19 Dec 2003
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  15. Fronzel

    Fronzel What's a Dremel?

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    Those Rocket drives start and 700$US for just the adapter. With RAM they run about 1200$US.


    SATA Data connections don't bother me near as much as SATA power connections. Brilliant idea to take the four pin Molex connection the computer industry has been using since 1652 and change. Of course, Western Digital didn't see fit to give me an adapter for it either. Thanks Guys! No, really, I wanted two 200 gig paperweights while I wait on a two dollar part.
     
    Fronzel, 19 Dec 2003
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  16. Pygo

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    I wish I could say I know what you meen... <rubbing it in>I got a molex to two sata power connector with my new mobo, and two sata cables</rubbing it in> BUT... I never got any drivers with the mobo :grr:
     
    Pygo, 19 Dec 2003
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  17. JADS

    JADS Et arma et verba vulnerant

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    Things have to change in order to make things better. The 4 pin molex is all well and good, but its rather large and difficult to remove ;)

    Another example is the FDD, no one can feasibly suggest there isn't a better alternative now. Yet these things still kick around. I finally dumped mine a while back and not needed it since :)
     
    JADS, 19 Dec 2003
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  18. Guest-16

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    I havent installed my floppy drive in ... ages. literally it must have been 6-9months now since i last used one.

    LOL! tell it how it is :rock:
     
    Guest-16, 20 Dec 2003
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