Back in the day when we were lucky to have 10 gig drives to partition among our various installations of Redhat Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows 98, there was a project at Georgia Tech called the Personal Terabyte. I don't think if I was involved in these particular folks in the CoC, but as part of my "leisurely third" year, I took an 8000 level seminar class on what do with all that stuff filling up all that disk space. In particular, we were looked at heuristic algorithms to identify various components within images so you could find the particular image of the cat you wanted to turn into a lolcat. Anyhow, 10 years later, Angela and I bought a personal terabyte of our own. We've been spiraling towards success in this area for quite some time. We've had over a terabyte of TiVo storage for about 18 months, and I think my collected computers have about 750 gigs between them.
At any rate, here is a picture of Alex with the IOMEGA Terabyte NAS.
For those technically inclined, the NAS has 2 500 gig drives and is configured for redundant backup via RAID 1. Effectively, the result is a .5 Personal Terabyte shared among the four of us. So, it's really like a Personal Eighth of a Terabyte...
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Woah...I'm married to a computer guy, so I do pretty good with "geek speak," but I still think I understood only half of what you said. I think.
I was just looking at a 750GB external for 100 Euro today in the paper. It's pretty crazy how fast the size increases are coming these days. Can't wait till they release a terabyte 2.5 inch drive!
Alex is sitting up already?? (yeah, that's what *I* got from the post!!)
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