jeff wrote in
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Larry wrote:
Y'all can try to get them to honor the sale......but as I went to
BestBuy to get my $24+ coupon discount, I looked to see how many
drives were left.

THE PRICE HAS BEEN INCREASED BACK TO $279.95 FOR THIS HARD DRIVE.

Sorry if you missed it.....(c;

Yup ... and that will probably be the cheapest price ever for storage
- from now on the price will only go up!

Many years ago when I worked with NASA I got a tour of a facility in
Greenbelt. It was a disk farm with hundreds of washing machine sized
drives, each about 200 Megabytes, for a total of about half a
Terabyte.
It contained all of the telemetry from every scientific satellite
for
about six months. Now that much storage can fit in your pocket!

One of my ham friends is a field service engineer for EMC in SC. Ever
see a Symmetrix box work? 100,000 RPM IBM amazing drives....all
mirrored. Massive $33K cache cards full of SIMs. Error free to the
customer. Simply amazing technology. The net's stored on them, I'm
told. Data happens so fast, it jams NT-based systems like the one Piggly
Wiggly grocery chain uses, here. They had to design a special piece of
software to make the Symmetrix wait until NT could handle the next packet
pouring out the fibre pipe hammering it.

It even calls for its own service! There's a laptop running in the door
that's bolted to the door. It has its own phone line. When the box's
main computer detects an error, it figures out what is wrong and
transfers this data to the laptop in the door. The software in the
laptop calls EMC's dispatchers and tells them what's wrong and what parts
it needs. They dispatch the information to Charles' cellphone. He goes
to his local warehouse, picks the parts and heads out to the box in his
Jeep. When he shows up is the first time the customer's IT guys have a
hint something is amiss, soon to be repaired. Their data never varied.
Charles opens the refridgerator-sized box, hot swaps the hardware and
hangs around until the main computer is satisfied with his replacement
after a special test mode exercises it. Once the customer's data is
written to any swapped drives or is back in action on other hardware...He
punches some keys on the folded down laptop and cancels the
call...insuring a fat check on payday. The customer doesn't call until
it is consumed by the fire...(c;

No, you don't want one. It runs on 440VAC 3-phase under heavy air
conditioning only an IT center can produce. My little drives run on a
gelcell...(c;


Larry
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The ultimate dirty bomb......