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in reply to [OT] End of hard disks era, new ways of development
Forget about disk drives, I'm still waiting for the death of tape drives. Where I work, we manage over 2 petabytes of data on tape, and the total amount doubles every year. With that much data, tape is much cheaper than disk. Tape was declared dead decades ago, and it may be dead for home users, but it's not quite dead yet...
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Re^2: [OT] End of hard disks era, new ways of development
by hardburn (Abbot) on Aug 09, 2004 at 20:35 UTC
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I'll chime one in for the death of floppy disks. About a year ago, I got a brand spanking new Promise SATA disk controller, and all the drivers were sent on a floppy disk. The last time I actually tried to use my floppy drive, it managed to short itself out. The power wires connected to it quickly became hot enough to burn through the insulation. So I'm a little wary of hooking up any of the old floppy drives I have laying around, even for SATA. Good thing Promise has a nice online archive of their drivers.
(I leave a floppy drive in the case, just because I don't have a cover for my 3.5" bay and need something there to keep the dust out. But it's not hooked up.)
"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.
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Re^2: [OT] End of hard disks era, new ways of development
by Wassercrats (Initiate) on Aug 09, 2004 at 22:18 UTC
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Another thing I don't like about hard disks is that they are made to stay connected to the computer. That's not safe enough for me when used for my backups due to the possibility of viruses and electrical surges. Here's a pro-tape drive article, and here are some of the tape drives I'll be considering for my little business venture. If it doesn't work out, they'll still be suitable for personal backups. Typical tape drives that home users use are cheaper, but I've heard too many stories of corrupted data. | [reply] |
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You could consider a removable harddrive caddy.
Get disks/caddies and rotate them.
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