Crossing the mark
Sep. 23rd, 2008 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cryowizardGot myself my first terabyte hard drive (Hitachi DeskStar) to replace the dead 500G Western Digital (second WD to die in my 5-HD system).
A terabyte for personal use. When I started dabbling with PCs, my father's work i386 with something like 8MB or RAM and (hold your breath) two hard disks of 40 and 80MB was a monster of unheard of power.
That was summer 1989...
UPD: Nice mechanics -- when hooked up as an external device via eSATA, the drive refuses to spin up (with external carrier powered on) until I turn the PC on and SATA detects a power signal from the bus. Sweet power savings.
A terabyte for personal use. When I started dabbling with PCs, my father's work i386 with something like 8MB or RAM and (hold your breath) two hard disks of 40 and 80MB was a monster of unheard of power.
That was summer 1989...
UPD: Nice mechanics -- when hooked up as an external device via eSATA, the drive refuses to spin up (with external carrier powered on) until I turn the PC on and SATA detects a power signal from the bus. Sweet power savings.