Larry Shelby Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Read about it herehttps://www.pcmag.com/news/next-gen-hamr-platters-promise-80tb-hard-drives?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=whatsnewnow&utm_medium=image 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertWS Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Just how much porn do you need to store? 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antler Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Clearly multiples of 80tb ? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bohlen Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 We're not there yet... ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jude77 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 The first computer I ever bought used floppies that held 144 megs. You bought them in packs of 10 and I remember thinking I would never fill them all. And now 80TB? The crazy part is I KNOW I'd fill it up. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 17 minutes ago, jude77 said: The first computer I ever bought used floppies that held 144 megs. You bought them in packs of 10 and I remember thinking I would never fill them all. And now 80TB? The crazy part is I KNOW I'd fill it up. Ditto...first work PC was 8088...running DOS. The upgrade to windows was a GODSEND, because there was a lot of work I needed to copy across programs, and Windows made it a BREEZE !!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 The IBM XT. If I remember correctly it had 256 Mb of Ram and a 20 Mb Hard drive, and a 5 and a quarter Floppy...and THAT was "State of the Art" at the time! Getting a 3.5 Floppy was a HUGE upgrade LOL!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Finally I can own every plugin known to man. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbarton Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I worked at the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise division many years and gigabit drives were a major break through back at the end of the last century! Anybody remember "getting perpendicular" with Hatachi ??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II Take care, h 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 53 minutes ago, jude77 said: The first computer I ever bought used floppies that held 1.44 megs. fixed 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 They gotta make these since the emergence of the SSD market. These would be great for archiving. I'm sure I could come close to filling half of these. PC games are reaching 100GB. Plus those bloated sample libraries, loops, and don't forget those gluttonous Windows OS backups. The only problem with these is if a platter goes bad might as well ditch the whole thing. I still have more confidence in the longevity of a HDD over a SSD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zo Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I just need affordable 4tb ssd s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reid Rosefelt Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 When I composed music in the 80s with Voyetra's Sequencer Plus, I plugged in my 5.25" floppy (360K) and loaded up the software into RAM. Then I took it out and put in another 360K floppy to save my data. Of course Sequencer Plus was MIDI only. All sound came from my synths and modules and effects came from hardware. But apparently, it still works today! I remember when I got my first computer with a 20 Mb hard drive. Wow! As my programs were kilobytes in size, and could be loaded in RAM, I didn't know what I could possibly do with all that data! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarine Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 18 minutes ago, kitekrazy said: I still have more confidence in the longevity of a HDD over a SSD. Me too. In my experience SSD's silently lose files more frequently and don't like hard resets (including power outages). Out of all the storage media I've used one stands out as the most consistently unreliable, and that is SD cards. I'd never store anything of value on them longer than is absolutely necessary before backing them up on a hard disk. HDD's fail too, but usually it's gradual and you get some warning signs such as occasional read/write errors and then "bad sectors" where those become chronic. If the HDD "blows up" and suddenly and instantly becomes unusable, it may just be the driving circuit board which can be repaired or replaced. If the fault is in the mechanical parts you probably need the services of a specialized lab. I would never use a 80TB HDD with its insanely fine machinery and bit-density as a final storage for any precious data. I would buy tape for that. Or carve the ones and zeros onto a block of marble or granite with a hammer & chisel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 23 minutes ago, Reid Rosefelt said: When I composed music in the 80s with Voyetra's Sequencer Plus, I plugged in my 5.25" floppy (360K) and loaded up the software into RAM. Then I took it out and put in another 360K floppy to save my data. Of course Sequencer Plus was MIDI only. All sound came from my synths and modules and effects came from hardware. But apparently, it still works today! I remember when I got my first computer with a 20 Mb hard drive. Wow! As my programs were kilobytes in size, and could be loaded in RAM, I didn't know what I could possibly do with all that data! Voyetra DOP was my first DAW. Too bad they got out of the DAW business. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartabartfast Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 When I started computing, we had to load our data into leaky baskets made of mastodon leather tanned with urine and haul it up the side of a glacier in the middle of snowstorms in July. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 Well, my FIRST computer experience was with "Punch Cards" in High School. We played "Oregon Trail" a LOT...LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraSin Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Now they need to work on physical hard drive speed. I saw at CES that one of the companies, Seagate I think. is working on a multi-actuator drive that they claim will work the same speeds as an SSD but I'm not holding my breath on the reality of that happening. Plus, it's Seagate so it will last a week before failing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajan Blue Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 16 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said: When I composed music in the 80s with Voyetra's Sequencer Plus, I plugged in my 5.25" floppy (360K) and loaded up the software into RAM. Then I took it out and put in another 360K floppy to save my data. Of course Sequencer Plus was MIDI only. All sound came from my synths and modules and effects came from hardware. But apparently, it still works today! I remember when I got my first computer with a 20 Mb hard drive. Wow! As my programs were kilobytes in size, and could be loaded in RAM, I didn't know what I could possibly do with all that data! I still do this TODAY with my Ensoniq Mirage, which I love and use a lot - it has a pretty unique sound Nigel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrydf Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 17 hours ago, slartabartfast said: When I started computing, we had to load our data into leaky baskets made of mastodon leather tanned with urine and haul it up the side of a glacier in the middle of snowstorms in July. Yes, but we were happy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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