WHOA THEY EXIST??? |
View Poll Results: Did you know 160GB Drives were out? | |
Where have you been?
|    | 35 | 60.34% | |
It JUST came out....
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I had NO IDEA!!!
|    | 4 | 6.90% | |
Whoa dude, that's HUGE!!!
|    | 16 | 27.59% |
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December 9th, 2001, 02:57 AM
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#1 (permalink)
| | Canuck
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Langley, BC, Canada
Posts: 3,603
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$439 Maxtor 160GB HD (Canadian Funds)
160GB????
I had know idea that drives existed that huge!!! My goodness!!! | 
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December 9th, 2001, 03:04 AM
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#2 (permalink)
| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: May 2000 Location: Miami, FL.
Posts: 2,841
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Damn! thats small, here in the future (2027)we have around 100TB harddrives! 160GB? LOL SMall!. and damn htis page loads up like instantly over my 56Gb/sec line. sites usally take forever! and it takes a whole hour to download 100GB damn slow! cant wait till i get broadband! they have up to 1.5Tb/256Gb connections which really rock! 100GB in 10 seconds 
well, im off to bed | |
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December 9th, 2001, 03:07 AM
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#3 (permalink)
| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Arizona
Posts: 2,538
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I never knew. I thought the max right now was 100gb. Hey, I'm still stuck back here at 13gb.  | |
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December 9th, 2001, 03:08 AM
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#4 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Colorado
Posts: 684
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I have a friend that works at Seagate. 180's came out a few months ago  Gary
Last edited by deltaf508 : December 9th, 2001 at 03:15 AM.
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December 9th, 2001, 03:29 AM
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#5 (permalink)
| | Canuck
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Langley, BC, Canada
Posts: 3,603
| 180????!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?! | |
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December 9th, 2001, 03:33 AM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Canuck
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Langley, BC, Canada
Posts: 3,603
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Barracuda 180 181.6 GB Fibre Channel 7200 RPM 7.4 ms avg MSS&W $1820.00
Barracuda 180 181.6 GB Ultra160 SCSI 7200 RPM 7.4 ms avg MSS&W $1800.00
What's Fibre Channel BTW??? Oh, and that's AMERICAN.  | |
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December 9th, 2001, 03:33 AM
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#7 (permalink)
| | Not an OWO yet, just OLD!
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Uh, Central Oregon
Posts: 5,717
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FreakyOCR --
Like your poll says "Where have you been?" 
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December 9th, 2001, 07:30 AM
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#8 (permalink)
| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Ireland
Posts: 1,810
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A nightmare to make sure you backed up that mother have enough trouble with my 30gig
griobhta | |
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December 9th, 2001, 07:34 AM
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#9 (permalink)
| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cardiff, Wales UK
Posts: 1,378
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Before you go out buying an IDE drive larger than 130GB make sure you realise you need an IDE controller that uses 42bit addressing to see >137GB disks. It was only ATA133 that included such a feature so you need such a controller for this big boy.
SCSI works as is (as usual ). | |
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December 9th, 2001, 08:32 AM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: SubSpace
Posts: 639
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And get ready to spend an entire day partitioning it... had a 100 GB in the shop one day - it took some 5 hours using Partition magic (fdisk maxes out at 80gb)
I'd go for many small ones instead - like 40-50 GB
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