Update: Price drop! Less than 7,000 baht! Wow!

On 2/9/2019 at 10:35 AM, Thomas J said:

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.  One of the largest supercenter stores in the USA with over 300 locations, over 60,000 employees, $18 billion in annual sales and hundreds of thousands of product runs the entire company on 1 Terabyte.  Unless you are downloading and keeping the entire library on Netflix I think you have overkill. 

I have 2 x 4TB for flac music 1x4TB for movies and 2 x 8TB for a backup system. 2 of the 4TB have failed within 2 years despite keeping them in a cool clean air and taking care when moving them. So the 8TB monsters have come in useful for restoring data. They are only used for backups and are carefully sealed and stored away when not in use. I would be worried running all the lot off a 8TB so prefer 4tbs for daily use. 

On ‎2‎/‎9‎/‎2019 at 5:35 PM, Thomas J said:

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.  One of the largest supercenter stores in the USA with over 300 locations, over 60,000 employees, $18 billion in annual sales and hundreds of thousands of product runs the entire company on 1 Terabyte.  Unless you are downloading and keeping the entire library on Netflix I think you have overkill. 

Come back in a few years and ask that.  I remember back in 1989 when my company was using the latest, greatest PCs, with 25 MHz processors and huge 120Mb hard drives.  I went to a shop in Singapore to buy some 5-1/4" floppies and the guy asked what machine I had.  When I told him he looked at me in a strange way and I'll never forget what he said: "What are you buying floppy disks for?  You'll never fill the hard drive of that!"

 

On 2/9/2019 at 10:35 AM, Thomas J said:

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.  One of the largest supercenter stores in the USA with over 300 locations, over 60,000 employees, $18 billion in annual sales and hundreds of thousands of product runs the entire company on 1 Terabyte.  Unless you are downloading and keeping the entire library on Netflix I think you have overkill. 

What an odd reply. Don't you understand the sheer numbers of HD porn movies are available for download today ? All my current 6 TB drives are completely full so I find this snippet regarding the 8 TB drives useful. ????

15 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

What an odd reply. Don't you understand the sheer numbers of HD porn movies are available for download today ?

All my current 6 TB drives are completely full so I find this snippet regarding the 8 TB drives useful. ????

How many hours, days, months of porn movies do you have ?

How many of these movies that you will never watch ? 95% ?

8 minutes ago, Pattaya46 said:

How many hours, days, months of porn movies do you have ?

How many of these movies that you will never watch ? 95% ?

What has that got to do with the OPs initial statement ?. You were the one that could not comprehend why people would want 8 TB of storage space by your ridiculous and unreferenced analogy to some large store using only 1 TB which I suspect is BS considering Walmart uses 400 TB.

https://wentworthmis.weebly.com/management-information-systems/tesco-vs-walmart-by-tanner-rebelo

 

I just provided you with a factual statement as why even 8 TB is not large in the current age for personal use.

I would much rather have 4 x 2 TB drives than one 8 TB. If you put all your data on one 8TB and it fails then you are f***ed. Better to share it among several smaller drives.

58 minutes ago, Pattaya46 said:

How many hours, days, months of porn movies do you have ?

How many of these movies that you will never watch ? 95% ?

I do a lot of wanking. You're obviously not a man.

31 minutes ago, Henryford said:

I would much rather have 4 x 2 TB drives than one 8 TB.

Why not both? With storage so cheap, it makes sense to avail yourself of as many ways as possible to secure your porno data!

1 hour ago, ballpoint said:

When I told him he looked at me in a strange way and I'll never forget what he said: "What are you buying floppy disks for?  You'll never fill the hard drive of that!"

The same thing happened to me...

Years ago I spent $2,000 on a new computer. The original build had a 1.6 GB (Yes GB!) hard drive and I spent the extra to upgrade it to the new and much more expensive 2.5 GB hard drive.

 

I was soundly mocked for that decision... by the salesman!

"You'll NEVER use all that!" He confidently proclaimed!

 

Times change!

1 hour ago, killerbeez said:

The same thing happened to me...

Years ago I spent $2,000 on a new computer. The original build had a 1.6 GB (Yes GB!) hard drive and I spent the extra to upgrade it to the new and much more expensive 2.5 GB hard drive.

 

I was soundly mocked for that decision... by the salesman!

"You'll NEVER use all that!" He confidently proclaimed!

 

Times change!

Or the 640k quote by Bill Gates, but did Bill Gates actually said it ??

 

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quote-won-t-go-away----but-did-gates-really-say-it-.html