Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Kuenz Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: big drives Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:23:54 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Distribution: world Message-ID: <20170322a@crcomp.net> References: Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:23:54 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dd45bcb298d95e45bdad8ca864c32b25"; logging-data="29817"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX189nWJ4LcIcJhSnFfBrVy21" Cancel-Lock: sha1:KrjK2KXtOT46CoKCHIdSC1UY15c= Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:453032 Winfield Hill wrote: > John Larkin wrote... >> >> >>I just happened to open my recycle bin and there was 42 Gbytes of >>junk. >> >>I remember 256 Kbyte hard drives. A PC with a 10M drive was top-end. >> >>There's no point in reducing jpeg sizes, or even deleting stuff, any >>more. I could never take enough pics, or create enough docs, to keep >>up with the progress in hard drives. I suppose some people could >>collect a large number of HD movies and use a terabyte somehow. >> >>It's impossible to crack one-time-pad encryption. Giant hard drives >>and memory sticks make OTP files easy to physically hand off to >>correspondents. > > An old saying, true from the 70s, until nearly 2000: > There are just two types of hard drives, > new ones, and full ones. > The 15K RPM 600 GB SAS RAID5 array in one of my server farms is so full that it recently grew into a second chassis. That sucks in many ways. The root problem is a 600 GB limitation on 15K RPM SAS hard drives that has been in force for about a decade now. There's been absolutely no improvement nor innovation in 15K RPM SAS drives over that period of time. Thank you, -- Don Kuenz KB7RPU