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PlainName:

--- Quote --- if a nuke hits your house or wherever you PC is, how do you protect your data?
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That's rather extreme. Suppose a fire breaks out - do you shut your PC down properly, unplug it and carry it to safety, or do you save your pets, your spouse, perhaps even yourself instead?

'Disaster' can cover many things from "oops, didn't meant to type that" to, as you suggest, a direct hit from a nuke. Not all of them are disastrously disastrous, and not all of them let you mitigate the effects as they occur.

amyk:

--- Quote from: eugene on April 28, 2022, 01:45:23 am ---I suppose the OP is looking for some 4MB memory cards too.  :-DD

Just kidding around; I totally get his frustration. Ten years ago I bought a Synology NAS and stuffed two 2TB drives into it (RAID 1.) I thought 2 TB was ridiculous at the time and I was right; the drive is still only half full. The really sad thing is that the drives are 5.25". If one of them fails I'm not sure I could even find a replacement!

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2TB 5.25" drives? :wtf:

james_s:

--- Quote from: eugene on April 28, 2022, 08:48:19 pm ---Still looking for creative ways to use a single drive that has 10 or 20 times the capacity I need in my laptop.

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Movies for watching on airplane flights, RAW format photos from a DSLR, music collection, backups of your other machines. How do you have 20 times the space you need on your laptop? If you can get by with so little space then dump the spinning drive and pop put an SSD in there, the smaller ones are dirt cheap and it is a *massive* peformance improvement.

eugene:

--- Quote from: amyk on April 29, 2022, 02:21:50 am ---2TB 5.25" drives? :wtf:

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They're 3.5" I remember them looking huge... I knew they weren't 8"  :-DD

eugene:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 29, 2022, 03:54:51 am ---How do you have 20 times the space you need on your laptop?

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I don't. Both of my laptops have a 1.5TB total and are at less than 50% capacity (which is just about right.) But, this thread is about extremely large drives (14TB) that are bigger than most people can use.

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