The Wannabe Longest Thread

[Flareon350]

5' 9"

[BitBuster]

Wow. Wow. That is epic. Darn you!

[Flareon350]

Wow. Wow. That is epic. Darn you!

LOL thanks

[BitBuster]

So, because this is supposed to be The Longest Thread, I offer up another digression:

How about gigabytes, eh? They're really something.



[i'm not sure where, exactly, this line of discussion will go, but I'm sure someone here can think of something creative.]

[tensorpudding]

Terabytes are the new gigabytes when it comes to personal storage space. Of course, your garden variety corporation probably is up to petabytes by now. I shudder to think of what kind of storage a government agency has.

[BitBuster]

I actually originally wrote "terrabytes" (sic), but I purposely changed it to "gigabytes" because I wasn't sure about the spelling (it turned out that I had it wrong), and I was too lazy to look it up.



The storage space of a government agency isn't what should concern you; their organizational scheme is what should be cause for worry!

[PB_guy]

MS moved people from large to gigantic pretty fast. I prefer smaller footprints. My first database program for our research nursery held information on each individual tree we had in our nursery, about 5000, covering 6 different species, and placement on a grid in just under 100 different plantations. Program and data fit on a 720Kb 5 1/4 inch floppy for distribution. Of course, that was DOS based. The windows version used more than twice the space.

ian

[AdrenalinDragon]

As much as I'm not a huge fan of these type of topics, I'll let it slide.

Anyway, is it true that USB hard drives are slower than SATA hard drives?

[geodave]

Exabytes is where it's at. And I do where hats -- love covering up my balding scalp.

I hear USB3 is freaky fast.

[tensorpudding]

USB is very slow compared to SATA. If it wasn't, we'd be using USB for hard drive interconnects, and they wouldn't have invented eSATA and Thunderbolt.