On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:19:32 -0000 (UTC), "Yes"
wrote:


Given my recent experience, I think I'll go back to hard drives from WD
in 1TB or 2TB size when I buy another one. I'm using my pc mainly for
web suring and email, so large storage is not critical. The one thing
that I might do to require larger storage would be playing around with
VM. It might be fun learning linux or programming without worrying
about messing up my RL pc :-) I could see making several VMs, and I
don't have any experience yet to guess how much disk space they would
need. Right now I have about 4TB hd between 2 drives (1TB and 3TB).

I'll probably buy another hd soon - external however for use as back
up. Wikipedia entries indicate that the longevity of the storage media
- CD, DVD, flash drive, SSD, hard drive, and so on - varies widely
depending on usage and physical storage. None of it matches paper
(thousands of years) but that's too cumbersome to use for back up :-)
I've got a number of music CDs approaching decades in age that I want
to keep backed up. They're backed up on hd, but only in two locations.
And I'm only just beginning to think about how to back up the RPG games
I bought in the late 90s and early 2000s that came packaged in CD and
DVD media. Those games required running them at the start of a game
session in a CD/DVD drive. Maybe the publishers will release codes to
bypass the CD/DVD requirement to play the game :-) Hah, fat chance,
LOL)

John

You know, when I looked at some of those site charts, it seems there's
for anyone always a better performing drive with fewer failures.
Taking that for a point of faith in objectivity, no doubt it is to be
an expected furball of contention, should a drive fail, and one
pronounce: I should have known better to go with my gut instincts.

The 3T drives I would expect now to exhibit similar performance, along
with 2/4/6T drives, than a prior spike in 3T drive failures graphed
from one of the two aforementioned site ratings. They are also
particularly posed, as the 3T is the one that will most easily
price-match a good many, otherwise, sensible and value-oriented 2T
class offerings among HDDs.

The developers platform, VMs and concurrent operating systems, is also
notorious for a large population of physical RAM not expected on usual
destop, including gamer builds.

We crossed the Event Horizon of paperless mechanization several years
ago from the point of a computer aide in business environments.

I've tapes and cassette decks I need throw away. It took me one year
of mornings, I'd place aside an hour for a cassette-side, to feed the
analogue output into my computer for WAV transposition and subsequent
MP3 encodes. That amount is 73.32GB in 18 directories, each no larger
than storage amount for subsequent placement on a DVD;- HDD storage
was a consideration at the time, and the encodes reflect that at a
lower allowance setting for encode quality.

DVDs will play from binary images on a HDD from software that renders
images into their library. I can access, here and now, play from an
image the first digit edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica from its
arcane Netscape Navigator interface easily enough & FWIW/YMMV...


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