OK to have 500GB hard drive as one partition?

[jameshanley39]

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I snipped what you wrote so nobody should have to read that again.

I guess you're a bit slow on the uptake

But why bore the world by repeating yourself?

Of course, when CDROMs went from 2x,4x,8x or MHz went from 16MHz,...
100Mhz, 120MHz, 200MHz eventually you get the idea that it'll keep
going up. One old professor once said that they always manage to
increment the most significant digit.

I guess you're one of those people that tells a joke that repeats
itself alot and listeners just want to kill you. I bet you loved
"knock knock" jokes as a child.

 

[JAD]

A hard drive needs backing up, certainly ... but what can you back one up
TO in this day of 500GB hard drives? A hundred or so DVDs? Maybe a dozen
(rather expensive) tape cartridges? A million miles of 8-hole punched
paper tape?

Is any of those actually any more likely to retain the data intact for a
useful length of time than a hard drive?

DVD/CD 50 years, estimated - hard drives any given time they are plugged in

 

[Daniel James]

DVD/CD 50 years, estimated - hard drives any given time they
are plugged in

And yet one hears of DVD media (in particular) that can't retain data for
more than a few weeks.

I certainly have CDs (factory pressed audio CDs, not computer-written
ones) that have developed errors and become effectively useless over time
without any particularly poor handling. I was a fairly early adopter of CD
Audio, so I have some disks that are 20 years old (there's a scary
thought) and I agree that most of them are still perfectly playable, but a
few are not. Who can really know how long a DVD+/-R will last? We have
more experience with hard drives.

Cheers,
Daniel.

 

[JAD]

And yet one hears of DVD media (in particular) that can't retain data for
more than a few weeks.

I certainly have CDs (factory pressed audio CDs, not computer-written
ones) that have developed errors and become effectively useless over time
without any particularly poor handling. I was a fairly early adopter of CD
Audio, so I have some disks that are 20 years old (there's a scary
thought) and I agree that most of them are still perfectly playable, but a
few are not. Who can really know how long a DVD+/-R will last? We have
more experience with hard drives.

yes and that experience shows that they are unreliable

 

[John Doe]

yes and that experience shows that they are unreliable

That's vague.

 

[JAD]

That's vague.\

so are you

 

[Jon D]

yes and that experience shows that they are unreliable

Everything is unreliable. Everything is not perfect. What is it
about the reliability figures for hard drives which makes you pick
them out for comment?

 

[JAD]

Everything is unreliable. Everything is not perfect. What is it
about the reliability figures for hard drives which makes you pick
them out for comment?

your kidding right? Hard drives are electro/mechanical for one thing

 

[kony]

Everything is unreliable. Everything is not perfect. What is it
about the reliability figures for hard drives which makes you pick
them out for comment?

Because it's more significant to the average user?
Combine the cost of the drive (replacement or at least time
for RMA and recepit of replacement) with potential loss of
data. Many people would rather have some other part fail,
yet many other parts will have a longer lifespan if treated
well.

 

[GB]

just the puerile shit thats all it can ever manage.

I'd never seen this user before. Is there some sort of keyword generator
that creates this, so that all is needed is a cut and paste? Better still
can you get this as an add-in for Outlook Express, so you just press a
button, it spews out the predictable response, and posts it ?