-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > Tonight I bought TWO 1 Terabyte external disk drives, that > transfer information at a rate of 300 Mbytes per second, for a total > cost of $283. > > I remember that RP06 disk drives which I purchased for Bell Labs in the > 1980 to 1983 time frame held about 256 Mbytes and cost $23K > apiece (and that was when $23K was a lot of money).
What was the transfer speed for the latter? Seek times for both? One thing is to store data, another --- getting it, or finding it at all, in time, that is... Šarūnas Burdulis Etna, NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjiFQcACgkQVVkpJ1MUn+YU7QCfeVglEnMYqZVtwRRi5o07Okxc OaMAn38hlpY72Zlk9/FZWKWq/zRU7gBg =cffF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
