Western Digital joins the Terabyte club

[Kirby]

Lets see, I started out with a Tandy CoCo with 64K of extended RAM! It was loaded, with a cassette deck for loading games and such! Then in 1981 or so I bought myself an IBM PC with dual 360K drives! Boot dos on A: and run King's Quest on B: in awesome 4-color graphics!!! Scary how much that machine cost. At some point I remember buying an 80MB hard drive, sucker weighed a ton! Was 5 1/4", full height internal baby!!

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by Kirby

Lets see, I started out with a Tandy CoCo with 64K of extended RAM!

Let's see, in order;
VIC-20 - cassette - 5.25" ext. floppy (then I added: Superboard that included: 80 col. mono. video, 16k () of ram and 5 hot switchable game cartridge slots)
Commode (sic) 128 - cassette - 2(!) 5.25" floppies ( modified w/ dual OS{BASIC and BASIC128} in addition to CP/M)
NEC MultiSpeed Laptop - ('286 - No HDD) 2 3.5" floppies
Clone '386 - 70Mb HDD
Clone AMD Anthion - 120 MB HDD

Then I got serious!

[mightyt]

Anyone remember the IBM PC Jr.? That way my fist !!

OK ... now stop laughing ....

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by mightyt

Anyone remember the IBM PC Jr.? That way my fist !!

OK ... now stop laughing ....

Was that the one nicknamed "The Peanut"?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Paul H

Was that the one nicknamed "The Peanut"?

Yes. Or at least that was the most common code name for it. At the time, IBM would sometimes use multiple names for projects (and different specs) to make it easier to track where leaks originated.

FWIW, my first Intel based pc was the original IBM PC (5051?) with PC-DOS 1.0 and TWO (count'em) 5 1/4" diskette drives for unlimited hot swappable storage!!

[cenwesi]

lol, i couldn't help it... how in the world did we go from 1TB drive to old school pc's.

PS: my first pc was a Radio Shack Tandy 1000hx with dual drive....

[Flatstanly]

Well.. I started out with a Radio Shack TRS80 and a very temperamental tape player....

Back on topic, i am rather chuffed with the new 1tb hd.... I have an OrigenAE S21T case with an AB9 motherboard.

I had used 4 750gb drives spanned. Now I am able to use the full six slots on my second on board controller for 6x1tb RAID5. Works a treat and I have less worries about data loss.

If you are wondering, I simply cannot be bothered getting up to change disks for a DVD so I ripped them all and set up a wee library file. They are now streamable across the house....

Splendid product this SageTV !!!

[teknubic]

Originally Posted by Flatstanly

...I have an OrigenAE S21T case with...

For those GIS-deficient:


Tell us you hate that case and all the problems you've had with it.

Please?

[AngelofDeth]

Originally Posted by Humanzee

Speaking from your own experiences I suppose? I've been running only WD drives with SageTV since I started it up in 2003 Not a single drive failure and I have 7 different disks spinning 24/7 and have packed up and moved probably 4 times since then. But now that I have said that one of them will probably fail tonight. I'll have to find my usb backup and re-sync all my family photos.

I have seen way too many wd failures... Whether they are less reliably or not, I don't know. I know I have seen an uncommon amount of failures of wd drives, and will avoid wd drives if at all possible.