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(Tech Crunch) Interesting How a pinch of table salt can do wonders for your porn collection   (techcrunch.com) divider line 18
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SilentStrider [TotalFark]
2011-10-17 11:23:51 PM
That's kinda neat.
 
SoxSweepAgain [TotalFark]
2011-10-17 11:32:11 PM
That's incredible, actually. Not the porn collection thing (that's cool too) but the salt thing.
 
ArkAngel [TotalFark]
2011-10-17 11:58:11 PM
18TB. Wow.

I remember my first computer porn collection took over a year to total 2 gigs. So were the days of 28.8K modems and AOL 3.0
 
UberDave [TotalFark]
2011-10-18 12:19:57 AM
18TB? That would be awesome to have 1/3 of my porn collection on a single drive!
 
omeganuepsilon
2011-10-18 05:03:17 AM
FTA:
The hard drive head flies overhead and flips these islands one way or another to create 1s and 0s.

Isn't it just a change in polarity?
 
Dinty Moore's Law
2011-10-18 05:14:56 AM
This doesn't bode well for my Japanese slug porn archive.
 
SpiritfireM
2011-10-18 05:40:27 AM
I'd be worried about my drives getting hypertension.
 
BumpInTheNight
2011-10-18 05:51:20 AM
Hey guys I'm gonna go try this right now, I'll let you know if it works!
 
BigBooper
2011-10-18 05:57:28 AM
UberDave: 18TB? That would be awesome to have 1/3 of my porn collection on a single drive!

Pffft, amateur. 18 gigs wouldn't hold even half of my Tijuana donkey show porn. I have thousands of categories indexed and cataloged. I think I'm up to 25 petabytes at the moment.
 
Doctor Jan Itor
2011-10-18 06:03:05 AM
Moving parts? Spinning platters? No way, it's all SSD's now baby! I need my pron NOW!

/18 TB is a lot of HD booty
 
BumpInTheNight
2011-10-18 06:09:34 AM
Wow okay so now my computer is still loading but with all that new space its gotta be worth it, right now its just going on and on about how smart its become!
 
Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy
2011-10-18 06:24:53 AM
Hey, an 8-fold increase in HDD density and corresponding reduction in seek time. And it'd still take 8 hours to transfer the entire contents of that drive...
 
rev. dave
2011-10-18 06:40:45 AM
Dammit, tried it and now the stupid thing won't work.

/not really
 
PirateKing
2011-10-18 08:10:30 AM
I have a very large porn collection already. I keep it scattered on websites around the world. Maybe you've seen it?

/I know, Wright?
 
ThePuceGuardian [TotalFark]
2011-10-18 08:52:07 AM
omeganuepsilon: FTA:
The hard drive head flies overhead and flips these islands one way or another to create 1s and 0s.

Isn't it just a change in polarity?

images.wikia.com

Approves.
 
ChrisDe
2011-10-18 10:13:11 AM
It does wonders for my margarita too, subby.
 
lohphat [TotalFark]
2011-10-18 12:12:33 PM
Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Hey, an 8-fold increase in HDD density and corresponding reduction in seek time. And it'd still take 8 hours to transfer the entire contents of that drive...

New SAS drves have a 6 Gb transfer rate.

Naw which RAID scheme will have to be developed to handle multiple drive failures? One 18TB rebuild's impact on a RAID 6 volume will make a dependent system come to a crawl for almost a day let alone a second failure.

Storage may be increasing but mitigation time is too as is risk of total array failure.
 
Head_Shot [TotalFark]
2011-10-19 02:49:34 AM
lohphat: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Hey, an 8-fold increase in HDD density and corresponding reduction in seek time. And it'd still take 8 hours to transfer the entire contents of that drive...

New SAS drves have a 6 Gb transfer rate.

Naw which RAID scheme will have to be developed to handle multiple drive failures? One 18TB rebuild's impact on a RAID 6 volume will make a dependent system come to a crawl for almost a day let alone a second failure.

Storage may be increasing but mitigation time is too as is risk of total array failure.

Well, the leap forward in one area of technology usually drives rapid improvements in complimentary areas, so bus speed, head access and read/write throughput are bound to catch up. All of which would help improve rebuild on your particular RAID scenario.

You'll probably be re-assessing your SAN strategy when these drives come to market anyway. You can simply mirror your current RAID6 right now, if 1 drive loss causes that much of a problem. Tell your $$$ guy you need more "data insurance" :)

/fellow IT worker
 
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