!remindme 1 year 10 months

I mistyped. It was $330 and it’s a manufacturer recertified drive with a 2 year warranty and was only spinning for 3 hours and spun up 4 times. So I don’t plan on it failing for awhile. I’ll eventually buy more in the future so they can be configured for RAID.

Sorry, check my edit!

I just purchased a 28TB hard drive for $230 $330. It would have taken 5.6 million of these IBM 350 units to equal that.

To put it into perspective, that would be more than 2 football fields in height, width, and depth (725ft³). And buying all of those units would have cost $896 billion in 1956. Adjusted for inflation that’s $10.48 trillion.

Edit: Sorry to get anyone’s hopes up. I mistyped $330 but if you’re wanting to get a mass storage drive at the price I did, I got it from Server Part Deals on eBay. They’re manufacturer recertified so essentially brand new and come with a 2 year warranty. (At least mine did.) My drive had 3 hours of spin time and had been spun up 4 times according to the drive health report. The way they can sell these for so cheap is by buying deprecated spares from massive data centers in bulk and recertifying them to resell.

I mean, yeah, that’s what he was getting at. How 70 years seems like a long time in the context of modern technology despite being very short in the sense of human history.

Thanks! I’ll have to check it out when I get back home. I’ll leave this post up as a resource cause I do think there’s some valuable information in here still.

Top Gear UK seasons 1-22

I’ve checked and that’s not true of the public trackers I use.

Ripping. I’ve searched the sidebar for guides but nothing jumps out to me. I’m sure I could find it eventually, but I don’t necessarily want to waste a couple hours browsing if someone knows where to look off the top of their head already. Any help is appreciated obviously!

I’ve got a flat spot on the back of my head that I used to be self conscious about. My 2¢ is that this guy isn’t a human. Any attacks on his head shape don’t really relate to me. So in my opinion, go ahead and let this traffic cone know that it looks like he cosplayed as a torpedo when his mother had to give birth. I’d wager that if his head shape made birthing him less painful, it was the most compassionate thing he’s ever done in life.

*unless it’s product is collectively owned by the public and for the public as a civil service.