Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
>> Florian Philipp wrote:
>>> Am 27.10.2011 19:30, schrieb Dale:
>>> I just wonder how much data they will be able to pack into a 3.5" drive
>>> tho.  Hmmmmm.  Surely they will run out of room at some point.  I mean,
>>> the heads have got to have a little room to work with.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>
>>> Well, then this story might cheer you up ;)
>>>
>>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/researchers-increase-hard-drive-density-sixfold-with-salt.ars
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Florian Philipp
>>>
>> Good Golly Ms Molly.
>>
>> "and have been able to fabricate magnetic storage media with a density of
>> 3.3 terabits per square inch."
>>
>> What is there about 10 or 12 square inches for a 3.5" drive?  That's about
>> 30TBs.  O_O  That would take me a while to fill up even if I had a really
>> fast DSL line.  WOW !!
>>
>> Hmmmm, NCIS, all the CSI's, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs, and lots of others.
>>   Heck, I could cut off DirecTv then.  Just get that Hulu thingy and go nuts.
>>   Does Hulu work with Linux?  Seems I read it doesn't.  Anyway, still a LOT
>> of shows.
>>
>> Dale
> Hulu works with Linux last time I tried but I typically use a Windows
> VM to watch it..
>
> NetFlix works with Linux but only in a Windows VM.
>
> Amazon streams now but I haven't tried them yet. (Watch out for 'One
> Touch' and accidentally spending money...)
>
> Most of the TV networks have web site streaming of their programs
> which work in Linux.
>
> I vaguely remember reading somewhere that it would take 6TB to
> digitize the Library of Congress. Whether that's true or not, we're
> close to the point where every person can have a personal copy of the
> Library of Congress.
>
> - Mark
>
>


I have to say this.  I worked at a computer place in the late 80's.  
Back then a 25Mhz CPU was fast as lightening.  Hard drives were maybe 
100MBs.  Memory, lucky if you have a 1 or 2Mbs.  Now look where we are.  
I'm still trying to play Steve Jobs and imagine where we will be 20 
years from now.

I'm real bad to download videos.  I have been working on NCIS here the 
past few weeks.  I try to get HD when I can.  One day I hope to hook my 
TV up to my puter.  I have a HDMI connector on the video card and my TV 
has a couple on the back of it.  I just don't know yet how to make them 
work or if they work already.  I need to test that one day.  Anyway, if 
I get enough stuff downloaded, I could in theory suspend DirecTv for a 
month or two.  Put the money on some bills.

Oh, I use downloadhelper to get the videos.  It stopped working with 
Seamonkey 2.4 so back to using Firefox right now.  It keeps crashing 
tho.  Still scratching my head on that one.  ;-)

Hulu works with Linux huh?  I got to remember that.  I did know that 
Netflix didn't tho.  I thought about trying it but they went up.

Life.

Dale

:-)  :-)