Gadget lust

[trixtah]

One terabyte. USB2. $AU1200.

OMFG.

Actually, I've noticed a trend where terabytes etc are expressed as 1000GB, when of course, they should be 1024GB. What do we call them then? Metric terabytes?

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[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

*ponder* ... you know, that's not actually that cheap.

I have a 250GB disk that I bought for about $230 almost a year ago, and a case I chucked it in that cost me $50. I have a second 250GB disk sitting idle because I need a) to take it into the office and fsck it, as I can't figure out how to do that to an ext2 disk under OSX, and b) get a case for it, or else keep swapping back and forth. But the point is that I have half that storage for approx half that price, albeit taking theoretically twice the USB ports.

A terabyte's just not as big as it used to be. I'd fill it in a matter of days with DVD rips for vidding.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not that cheap compared to buying lots of smaller disks. It's the all-in-oneness that got me (although there are bound to be multiple platters in there). And the one USB port to drive the thing. I'm sure they'll drop in price, at some point.

And it has a pretty blue light. :-)

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Oh, I nearly forgot, in case you weren't aware of it, there's a suite of Ext2 utilities (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/) for Macs which an ex-colleague of mine swears by. It includes fsck and mkfs.

I've used the NT-y/Win2K versions from Sourceforge and it works perfectly well.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what I have, but the documentation is inadquate and while I could get fsck to run, I couldn't get it to *stop* running. It seemed inordinately slow, which is why I gave up and am going to take the disk in to work to do it on a linux box.