I'm still waiting for advice about what TV to buy. I'd like to complain to the management.

Er... Any USB2 one?
2 gig should set you back about £5.

Um... This one.

Er... Any USB2 one?
2 gig should set you back about £5.

Um... This one.

Unless you're really married to the "tiny stick" idea , consider one of the 2.5" portable HDs. 160gb would cost you £50 and be comfortably quicker than any stick.

Mind you, it's 4GB big brother is only £9.

Unless you're really married to the "tiny stick" idea , consider one of the 2.5" portable HDs. 160gb would cost you £50 and be comfortably quicker than any stick.

Unless you're really married to the "tiny stick" idea , consider one of the 2.5" portable HDs. 160gb would cost you £50 and be comfortably quicker than any stick.

I'd like to question the idea that accessing a magnetic HDD over a USB-IDE/SCSI/SAS/SATA interface is faster than directly accessing a solid state drive.

Where do you get these, Dudley, sir?

Also, i know it says 2.5", but how big is it when you factor in the casing, etc? As big as a sandwich? As big as a CD case? AS big as a jam jar lid?

Every usb stick I've ever owned takes fucking ages when there's multiple files, syncToying to my mp3 player or stick is hell, the hard drive shoots through them. (600MB of little text files normally).

The interface doesn't seem to be the problem here.



They're laptop hard drives in a little case.

Very roughly the whole thing is as long as my middle finger and as wide as my pinky is long

Waits for penis joke.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142577 is my one. of them.

8 cm x 12.6 cm x 1.5 cm apparently.

Every usb stick I've ever owned takes fucking ages when there's multiple files, syncToying to my mp3 player or stick is hell, the hard drive shoots through them. (600MB of little text files normally). The interface doesn't seem to be the problem here.

He added that some servers may not be able to deliver enough I/Os to fully stretch the Flash storage. "The latest QLogic HBA is the only one we've found fast enough, and for our demo we had to use Veritas as Windows mirroring was too slow," he said.

Meems - I have 2 of these

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128465

Obviously bigger units. (12.5 cm x 20.4 cm x 3.6 cm) instead of (8 x 12 x 1.5) or so and needs mains power. But so much more space for the same price.

There's video of it!

Really?
I didn't know they got that big
I had never heard of one the size that you are talking of, let alone larger.
Thanks, Dudley, I will have a more extensive look around

Eesch. I've got a 2TB external drive at home. 500GB drives are properly cheap nowadays, too.

I remember when I was impressed when it was £1 a GB, now it's like 10p.

They are still quite small, I could fit one of those on the shelf easy peasy. I don't think I will ever have 500GB of stuff, ever, or even 160, but I guess there is not harm in having on that is bigger than you will use, as long as it doesn't mean that they are noticably slower.

We are not supposed to believe that the girl in that video is actually at that warehouse, are we?

The one I have at work sits on top of the PC fine, the one at home is indeed on a shelf. If it's not going to move often then that's the way to go

I remember being impressed at my fathers work for having a 1Gb Drive. Which was about the size of a car.

away... from one... tera...byte!'

Of course at the time (2005) we were all 'ooooh!'

To be honest I am still doing the same with the 2GB micro SD that I have. I keep putting it on the end of my finger and going 'cor, 'tis indeed amazing'.

My Nan's mind boggled once when I was taking photos of her and my grandad at their 65th anniversary a few years ago and she asked how much it cost to take so many pictures. I explained that they were stored on my SD card, and took the card out to show her. She just kept shaking her head and saying 'I don't know, I don't know, the things they can't do..."

To be honest I am still doing the same with the 2GB micro SD that I have. I keep putting it on the end of my finger and going 'cor, 'tis indeed amazing'.

I did that when I first saw Gamecube discs, though I've no idea what their capacity is.

I can fit more games on a C90 than you can on your Gamecube disc. Think on.......

Just look at the box allowing you to view this forum, and think about what it's actually doing... 50 years ago this would probably be called witchcraft.

It is amazing. When you stop and think about it, the speed at which the technology has increased is staggering.
Just look at the box allowing you to view this forum, and think about what it's actually doing...

It is amazing. When you stop and think about it, the speed at which the technology has increased is staggering.
Just look at the box allowing you to view this forum, and think about what it's actually doing... 50 years ago this would probably be called witchcraft.