5 MB hard drive in 1956
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I just purchased a 28TB hard drive for $230. It would have taken 5.6 million of these IBM 350 units to equal that.
To put it into perspective, that would be more than 2 football fields in height, width, and depth (725ft³). And buying all of those units would have cost $896 billion in 1956. Adjusted for inflation that's $10.48 trillion.
Don't trust that drive.
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Imagine what a HDD of that size could store today.
At least 1
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where you get that deal??
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where you get that deal??
Sorry, check my edit!
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Don't trust that drive.
I mistyped. It was $330 and it's a manufacturer recertified drive with a 2 year warranty and was only spinning for 3 hours and spun up 4 times. So I don't plan on it failing for awhile. I'll eventually buy more in the future so they can be configured for RAID.
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I mistyped. It was $330 and it's a manufacturer recertified drive with a 2 year warranty and was only spinning for 3 hours and spun up 4 times. So I don't plan on it failing for awhile. I'll eventually buy more in the future so they can be configured for RAID.
I just lost a 12TB Toshiba X300 that was mere months out of its 2 year warranty. Never spin up a single drive! They will always make you wish you mirrored, one day.
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I just lost a 12TB Toshiba X300 that was mere months out of its 2 year warranty. Never spin up a single drive! They will always make you wish you mirrored, one day.
!remindme 1 year 10 months
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I just lost a 12TB Toshiba X300 that was mere months out of its 2 year warranty. Never spin up a single drive! They will always make you wish you mirrored, one day.
RAID is still no replacement for a backup. Single drives are fine as long as you have automated backups and can handle the interruption when someone goes wrong.
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In a similar sense, this is one of my favorite historical photos. A nuclear reactor delivered by steam locomotive!
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Fun fact: it used to have 13 bars, but changed to the current 8 because 13 bars could not be made pretty on (8-pin) matrix printers.
Fun fact: exactly once, the team organising IBM's participation in the Copenhagen Pride parade got away with wearing t-shirts with the bars printed in the rainbow colours. Immediately after, they were notified that such alterations to corporate branding was unacceptable.
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There once was an official IBM logo issued in rainbow colours in 2017:
https://page-online.de/kreation/wie-man-mit-einem-logo-politisch-farbe-bekennt-zeigt-ibm/
Good on corpo for allowing that. That was after I left (and in a different country) so I wasn't aware.
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RAID is still no replacement for a backup. Single drives are fine as long as you have automated backups and can handle the interruption when someone goes wrong.
It depends on what's on the drive. I have a large library of games stored on striped spinning rust. What it does is let me play very old games without downloading them every time. When one fails which isn't very often, I just buy a new one, rebuild the array and download again. Usually I'm downloading the library cause I did something stupid and broke it.
Any data I value at all is at least in a redundant array and anything that I don't want to ever lose is in a proper 3-2-1 solution. Keeps the costs down, cause I'd be sad if I lost my jellyfin stuff but screwed if I lost my pictures or tax stuff.
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What would have happened if we just dropped a 20tb hard drive in front of the computer researchers of that time?
Nothing, they would have no idea what it was, or how to interface with it. They might even end up destroying it because they have no idea of the power requirements. Even if they managed to get it powered up and guessed at what it was for, they would still be stuck with the issue of not having an operating system which is capable of logically addressing all of the storage. And the lack of drivers would make that even harder.
A lot of modern technology sits atop a mountain of other modern technology which must be sorted out before you can even start to think about designing the end product. It could be that, since they knew what was possible, and had an example to crib off of, scientists and engineers could have gotten to that point faster. But, there is just an insane amount of prior tech in front of modern computers that any one piece of it, thrown back that far, would likely just be shiny junk.
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In a similar sense, this is one of my favorite historical photos. A nuclear reactor delivered by steam locomotive!
When was this taken?
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When was this taken?
I'm out and about right now so I can't look it up, but most likely during the 50s. The United States transitioned away from steam in the 50s and was largely transitioned to diesel by the early-mid-60s
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Yes kids, before color TV was commonplace people would stand around and watch cargo get loaded for fun. It was a dark time in entertainment history.
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What would that even be?
The spectacle and witnessing something revolutionary makes the person feel like they're a part of history. A modern equivalent is any time that happens. The article is irrelevant, whether it's a huge hard drive or an artificial heart or a robotic arm or a human dinosaur hybrid being loaded into a cargo crate doesn't matter.
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Yes kids, before color TV was commonplace people would stand around and watch cargo get loaded for fun. It was a dark time in entertainment history.
This was definitely true in the 80s where I grew up
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I'm out and about right now so I can't look it up, but most likely during the 50s. The United States transitioned away from steam in the 50s and was largely transitioned to diesel by the early-mid-60s
Oddly the nuclear reactor has more in common with a steam locomotive than a diesel since they both generate power via steam.
