Paging Dr Ivan

<fx:looks at 1TB drive that's just turned up on my desk>

*glum*

 

All right, I admit it, we've built the world's largest mosquito swatter.

And there are going to be 2,808 bunches of those particles going in
each direction, each bunch with 115 giga-protons. The energy in the beams
is reckoned to be like an Inter-City Express travelling at 200 km/h.

Yeah, the higher energy ones. On average one 10^20 eV cosray
hits above each square km of the earth once per century.

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Oh, this one *is* for work.

At home, I've got 160GB in my laptop and an 80GB external drive for
backups.

Oh and a couple of 8GB USB pens.

So that's 256GB. I just can't see why anyone would ever need any more
than that! )

 

[...]

I don't get it, a smaller backup drive?

The steady state of disks is "full".

Though with the 1 TB piece I bought for backups I have yet to reach it.

 

I've got a 750GB disk hanging off the back of my PC at home for music,
video and, etc, educational documentaries. It's usually fairly full.

 

[...]

There are sites where you can get educational documentaries streamed
live from the Internet, you know, no need to keep half a terabyte of them
locally

 

You've been whooshed, young sir.

Bit time. Nice one Chris.

 

You've been whooshed, young sir.

Big time. Nice one Chris.

 

Google Bill Gates quote: "640K ought to be enough for anybody". Though
it is apparently attributed to him erroneously (as far as he is
concerned anyway).
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Typing from a 120 Gb notebook on train
PC At home has 3 RAID0 arrays with a total of 2.5 Tb
PC at work has a dual 4Gig fibre optic connection to a 148Tb SAN RAID5
of which half is assigned totally to me. Mine only mwahaahaha. Plus a
measly little 1Gig LAN card to access everyone else's stuff on the
other half of the SAN.

Be a while before we get to Pb though. This SAN will last us 2-3 years
I reckon unless someone commissions a feature film from us.

 

And also, as I recall it at the time, it was 256Kb, which is what the
first IBM PCs[1] were shipped with, hence CT's 256GB.

[1] 512Kb not until the PC/XT, IIRC

 

Well, you've seen me ride, so I guess you came to your own conclusion
)

But you're right if "lack imagination" == "don't download gigabytes of
stuff that I'll never listen to/watch/play, etc. etc."

 

hey, it wasn't *that* well worked out.

 

I don't keep anything I download (within reason anyway), but I
actually need 2Tb of storage to hold all the dvds and cds I own.

It was cheaper to buy discs and a media centre, than it was to buy
physical shelves to put them on.

 

You can look in Ye Shedde for a brief account of the trouble I got
into last night/today when I tried to extend a 100 GB partition to 371 GB
(I hadn't allocated all my space). When the dust settled, I'd lost one
Doctor Who episode. Hope I didn't lose any CUDA SDK files...

Meanwhile, at work I think we have 0.66 PB on-line now (and maybe
a hundred TB or two still to be configured), and we're something of a
small player in LHC Grid, being a fifth of a Tier 2 consortium.

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Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".