On 12/1/2011 4:53 PM, leaking pen wrote:
> simon, to burn movies to play in portable players? only thing I've
> used blank dvds for for a while.
>
> That said, I think is is rather creative spam.
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Simon Quellen Field <sfield@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.
>>
>> 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 <cathalgarvey@gmail.com>
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>>> I gotta say, you're right. This isn't the place. :P
>>>
>>> On 01/12/11 21:48, Thomas Stowe wrote:
>>>> Vinpower Digital 25GB 4X BD-R 50 Packs Disc Model OQBDR04LT-50
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A) It's not spam, it's me being friendly to geeks.
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.
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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