Update on NAS

[Imrahn]

mmm I put it other way, coz we didn't have the need, they weren't available, the moment need started arising, big disks were made available, subsequently bringing the price down, growing the need more ...... bringing bigger disks on table .....and so on the cycle started .........

Uhmmm, necessity? Mother of invention? Heard it somewhere....

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

mmm I put it other way, coz we didn't have the need, they weren't available...

But we did have the need. Whilst media hdd storage has taken off in the home, commercial need has always been ahead of of availability and probably always will be.

After agonizing over the disk budget (these days someone just gets sent to a pc shop with petty cash) then came the tape budget. The battle not only with cost but with the practical aspects nightly backups that threatened to take longer than a night.

 

[ranjeetrain]

I was so happy in the days when I was able to pack my whole operating system, spreadsheet, database manager, compiler, editor, assembler and other miscellaneous items on one 1.2 MB floppy disk costing 10 rupees.

 

[sam9s]

^^ You talking about 1.2MB floppy, I used to carry , Wordstar, PC Tools and Harvard Graphics full presentation tool on 5.25" Disk which was 720KB!!!!!!!! back in 1995 costing 90 Rs

 

[ranjeetrain]

There were a number of variations in them. Lowest capacity 5.25 inch floppies could store as little as 110 KB. The lowest I still have are 360 KB ones that were called SSSD.

Last bunch of them I bought were Maxcell iirc costing about 8 rs apiece.

 

[Shivam]

This thread started with 23TB and the last post was of 110KB. Now this is what I call a contrast.

 

[GeorgeO]

23 TB is now going up to 26 next month.

 

[quad]

There were a number of variations in them. Lowest capacity 5.25 inch floppies could store as little as 110 KB. The lowest I still have are 360 KB ones that were called SSSD.

Last bunch of them I bought were Maxcell iirc costing about 8 rs apiece.

360kb are DSDDs, which are two generations removed from SSSD.

 

[ranjeetrain]

360kb are DSDDs, which are two generations removed from SSSD.

I guess you are missing something. DSDD, as Double Sided Double Density were 1.44 MB and they came in 3.5 inch. There never was any DSDD version of a 5.25 inch floppy.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

My first "computers" were photo-typesetting machines. I just remember that the first one came with big floppy discs (that really were floppy, with no plastic case) and then the second one had something smaller, ...but still floppy? No hard disks.

Then I moved on to Unix machines that had tape drives, rather than disks (and full-hight hdds like great bricks). The next thing I remember is actually being impressed by the 1.4Mb drives on IBM PCs (what were the early hard disks on those machines? Still in Megabytes, I think?)

With terabytes available to me now, at home, and even having a couple that I can put in my pocket, that all seems like a dream.

 

[quad]

I guess you are missing something. DSDD, as Double Sided Double Density were 1.44 MB and they came in 3.5 inch. There never was any DSDD version of a 5.25 inch floppy.

huh? Ok - straight from the horse's mouth... (see the format command for 360K) in the link below.
(At some time in the past, I actually used to remember the uPD765 registers for
these formats. uPD765 was the NEC floppy disk controller on the original
PC, and it's legacy lived on, buried inside modern integrated motherboard chipsets)

MicroSoft MSDOS Fasthelp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_controller

 

[ranjeetrain]

Nowhere does that say those floppies were 5.25 inch.

May be you should read keeping in mind the size and the densities. You are mixing them.

Also, wiki can't be used as a reference. No serious researcher relies on wiki for "facts". If you search wiki for "Floppy" you will come across contradicting statements.

 

[Oakley]

23 TB is now going up to 26 next month.

WoW, 26 TB of data.:licklips:

(Hope, no one from anti-piracy squad is monitoring this thread)

Oak

 

[quad]

You are mixing them.

Not really...but this is my last one on this topic.

 

[grunthos]

Sorry for the late reply @sam9s and @sud98. I did not mean to literally convert existing mp3 to FLAC - that would be daft. I meant finding and replacing existing mp3s with high quality FLAC files. Its obviously a slow process, and not everything can be replaced.

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