Definitely not the place and I flagged it spam because it is.
On Dec 1, 6:23 pm, Thomas Stowe <stowe.tho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/2011 4:53 PM, leaking pen wrote:
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> > simon, to burn movies to play in portable players? only thing I've
> > used blank dvds for for a while.
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> > That said, I think is is rather creative spam.
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> > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Simon Quellen Field <sfi...@scitoys.com> wrote:
> >> With 32 gigabyte flash cards going for $36, why would anyone bother
> >> with disks anymore? Why use a slow, huge, one-time-use thing that can
> >> only hold single-digit gigabytes when the 32 gb microSDHC card in my phone
> >> is smaller than my baby fingernail, re-writable, and I don't need a huge
> >> disk
> >> reader? In a pinch, I can even read the data on the phone itself.
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> >> For a little less money, you can get a 32 gb thumb drive that fits easily in
> >> your
> >> pocket, plugs into any USB port, and is much faster. And you can use it more
> >> than 50 times, unlike the big old-fashioned plastic disks.
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> >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgar...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> I gotta say, you're right. This isn't the place. :P
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> >>> On 01/12/11 21:48, Thomas Stowe wrote:
> >>>> Vinpower Digital 25GB 4X BD-R 50 Packs Disc Model OQBDR04LT-50
> >>>> Item #: N82E16817607054
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> >>>>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817607054
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> >>>> 30.99 + tax + free UPS 3 day shipping
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> >>>> Vinpower Digital 25GB 4X BD-R 50 Packs Disc Model OQBDR04LT-50 : 30.99 +
> >>>> tax + free UPS 3 day shipping
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> A) It's not spam, it's me being friendly to geeks.
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> B) Who would use disks? An amazing amount of people who love their data.
> Who's an idiot who uses only hard disks? Do you have kids and a wife? Do
> you even care about your data? If you depend on an online backup, you're
> getting ripped off. Yes, hard drives can be nearly the same price as
> blurays, however this promotion I found on SlickDeals that linked me to
> NewEgg earlier makes it more cost effective. We're talking about
> 1,250GB, that's 1.25 TB! for $31 + tax! That's Chump Change! You're nuts
> to talk badly about a deal like that. Is that your first computer? Do
> you even know what today's optical media is capable of? Not only is it
> about as much weight as hard disk media, pound for pound but it's not
> impact sensitive and has a "warranty" longer than any hard drive you've
> bought or will likely buy in the near future.
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> It won't last a century, but it'll probably last 2x-3x as long as any
> hard drive you have. That said, if you want anything to actually be
> around in the future, use optical media. You can drop it, bury it, keep
> it in a storage unit or safety deposit box and never need to worry about
> any of the things you do with hard drive media. Like, impact
> sensitivity, "accidents", acts of god wiping our your drives. Please,
> tell us the reasons using disks is inferior to a 32GB flash drive again?
> Many people, especially scientists, have much, much much more valuable
> data than you could possibly fit on a flash drive. Good luck with that,
> until someone steals it, your car or whatever you keep it in if that's
> your idea of backup. How about something that can store all of
> Arxiv.org, mirrors of your favorite websites and probably your entire
> video and document collection to boot? What's really cool, if you have
> no budget, you could backup the entire archive.org text collection (.5
> petabytes) for around $13,000.
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