5 MB hard drive in 1956
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Oddly the nuclear reactor has more in common with a steam locomotive than a diesel since they both generate power via steam.
I almost added a joke about it being a photo of 2 steam power plants, but figured that might be a bit too obscure for [email protected]
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Someone please photoshop (or gimp) hundreds of people crowded around these fingers.
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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.
The real world failure rate of single drives is just too high. A second drive makes bad days tolerably rare.
I'm down a lot longer while I pull everything back down my internet connection from the cloud than I am stuffing a new drive in an enclosure and letting it re-silver in the background.
