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On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 08:45 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
>  On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:49:47PM +0800, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> > 2009/2/11 Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org>:
> > > How much do you think is a large amount? Tens of gigabytes? Tens
> > > of terabytes?
> > 
> > Tens of gigabytes.
> 
> When you can buy a 1.5TB disk on the commercial market, tens of
> gigs is not a large amount. 

Hey, Western Digital has 2TB drives on the market now. :)

They're still at quite a premium though (~$300/ea) vs. the Seagate 1.5TB
drives at ~$130/ea. Picked up four of the 1.5TB Seagate drives a week or
two ago myself, happy as can be w/'em so far.

--jarod








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