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Author Message   Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4015 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 3:06 am:        Granted it's Tiger Direct, and a rebate, but hey... http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=10836 04&AffiliateID=lw9MynSeamY-.Je8zX9pPoE9ko8FfmOOGg   TarPit Coder Citizen Username: Tarpitcoder Post Number: 78 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 9:16 am:        That's an awesome deal. The worst thing about drives now is that the bandwidth to them is so out of kilter vs the capacity. It's like filling up / emptying a swimming pool with a soda straw. Backing them up a real PITA. The standard response is 'Oh just mirror them' which is wonderful until both drives of the same type / manufacture die due to the same manufacturing fault. Thinking back to my old 80286 It had a 40 MB HDD and could read/write at about 400 KB/sec to it. That's 100 seconds to read the whole thing. Now lets convert that for our modern 400 GB drive, and let's say you can do 80 MB/sec sustained read/write = 5000 seconds / 83 minutes. So it begs the question if disk IO had scaled like back on my old 286 we would have a drive interface running at 4 GB/sec sustained read/write. Alternatively hard-drives should be 8 GB in size. Still, that much disk for that much money. $65 to store 100 DVDs. Not bad. --Tarp   Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 3536 Registered: 5-2004 Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 10:53 am:        It's always easier to put in a bigger sink than increase the size of the pipes. Backup overnight (or whenever you're sleeping ;-)   TarPit Coder Citizen Username: Tarpitcoder Post Number: 82 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 12:41 pm:        Sleep is a conspiracy created by the mattress manufacturers of the world.   Earlster Supporter Username: Earlster Post Number: 1573 Registered: 8-2003 Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 3:37 pm:        Dang, all sold out.