Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] new hdd?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Mind if I ask what the heck you are doing with 11 GB of HD space on MLUG?
> It would take you an eternity to download all that.  Are you creating
> files there, downloading them, what?

I'd hafta tally through to see. Have various things in my web site, seveal
years mail, I did have some iso images etc (not sure if I still do), files
I've cached, etc. I keep meaning to dump most of it to my own hdd but I've
been fighting with the phone company to get DSL for freaking forever. :P

> It is nice of you to offer to chip in for more disk space, seriously, but
> why do you need it?

That's like asking why I need air. I just keep constantly using it for the
million and one things I'm playing with at any time. Again my goal for my
home setup is to cross the terabyte barrier by the end of this year. I'm
seriously already considering how much I could store in petabytes of space
and how much $$$ would be involved in buying that much hdd space including
servers to hold the hdd's, networking equipment, etc. I pay a little less
than a buck a gig for storage space right now so purchasing a petabyte of
storage would be quite the challenge for a losser geek boy like me. All I
can do is hope the prices keep going down. Or someday figure out a way to
make money over my obsession with data. To bad more people aren't trying
to setup massive file servers on a budget. I'm pretty good setting those
up. I have been working on a vending machine that can take camcorder tapes
and easily/quickly shoot out a couple dvd's with the tape contents. I
thought it'd be good for airports - to allow people to digitize their
memories and create extra copies without any PC knowledge. Umm anyway so I
use hdd space like it was going out of style. ;)
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