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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> 4 or 5 hours huh. I guess drives are a lot faster now. Back in the |
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>> late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb |
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>> drives. Ooops, my ages is showing again. lol |
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> I recently found a box of hard drives in my house and have been using |
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> ddrescue to pull the data off of them. These drives were not that old, |
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> around 1gb each. Desktop drives. I was amazed at how slow they were |
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> relative to today's drives... 2MB/sec? 5MB/sec? My internet connection |
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> is faster than that now. |
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> Also, found a dead 5.25" Quantum hard drive... forgot how huge those |
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> are. Weighed a ton and it was built like a tank. |
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> Your new drive will probably go around 100-150MB/sec or so on |
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> sequential writes. So you can do the math and figure out how many |
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> hours that will take. |
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It won't be that fast. The drive supports 6Gbs/sec but my mobo is only |
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3Gbs/sec. I hope to upgrade my mobo at some point. Then maybe the ram |
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and CPU. I been looking at those 8 core CPUs a bit. The prices are |
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coming down slowly. |
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Anyway, I'll only get the 3Gbs/sec for now. |
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I used to have a couple of those really old 14 inch hard drives. I |
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think I sold them for scrap a few years ago. They were mostly aluminium |
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if I recall correctly. They were only a few megabytes but they sure was |
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big. |
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Our age is showing. lol I bet folks know I am not a teenager now. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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