[Leaplist] [OT} Storage though the years -- WAS: Scanner Setup Help?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Steve Litt wrote:  
> A 1994 Egghead Software advertisement stated a sale price of
> $795.00 on a 1000 Megabyte (1GB) Western Digital disk drive.
> Heart pounding, praying it wasn't a misprint ... cut ...

Actually, in late 1993 I bought a Seagate ST31200N (1.2GB, 1.08GB
formatted) Fast SCSI-2 for $700.  It was the first of a new series
of only 1" height (instead of 1U, 1.75" height aka "half-height")
Seagate 3.5" drives.  This was back when $1 per MB for SCSI drives
were a steal.  The purpose?  To install Yggdrasil LGX with the new
Linux 0.99 kernel (I had been hacking it since 0.96):  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X  

Jason Boxman wrote:  
> Crazy.
> I still have my original x 120GB RAID 5 array I assembled in
> 2005 along with a companion 3 x 300GB RAID 5 array for backups.
> Still haven't managed to fill it up.
> But then, I don't do much photography, digital video, CD or DVD
> ripping, PVR or anything else space heavy.

I bought my Pentax K20D 14.6MP (4672 x 3104) dSLR over a year ago.
Shooting RAW+JPEG will fill up 1GiB in around 30 shots -- over 10MiB
for the highest quality JPEG and over 20MiB for the RAW.  Even if I
only shoot HQ JPEG, that's a good CD with only 50-60 or so shots.

E.g., just this set of fifty-five (55) JPEGs fills up a CD:  
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebs413/sets/72157620845106641/  

The over 1,600 shots I took at the vent fills four (4) 4.35GiB
(4.7GB) DVDs completely, just over 17GiB total.  Considering I've
already hit about 10,000 shutter presses on my K20D, and tens
of thousands on my K100D prior, I have about a TiB in just photos
I've personally taken.

Storage is cheap compared to the nearly grand (yes, $1,000) I
paid for this baby (which I took the shots with), which is the
shortest (only 5.3") f/2.8 200mm lens the saleswoman at the store
(Ace Photo here next to IAD here around DC, unlike your typical
store) said she has ever seen:  
http://www.pentaximaging.com/camera-lenses/smc_PENTAX_DA_Star_200mm_F2.8_ED_(IF)_SDM/  

Jason Boxman wrote:  
> I ponder upgrading to a couple 2.5" or smaller drives I can
> RAID 1 so I can move to smaller form factor boxes, but that's
> more money...

I'm actually recycling my older 250GB 2.5" to my secondary set of
servers (parent's business, parent's home, my home, and 1 spare)
now.  Bought a bunch of Dell Optiplex 745 Small Form-Factor systems
for $100/each and am putting in removable bays.  These systems will
rsync each other and provide failover, although they will have
removable 2.5" drives for backup as well, along with DVD-R/RAM for
critical (and long-term) archiving.

My main server is moving to 500GB 2.5" drives for several TBs of
usable.  I'm using 250-320GB 2.5" drives for backup, and will likely
recycle more 500Bs shortly as the 750B drives go into my notebooks.

I gotta make it to an InstallFest to shed some of my old 200-250GB
3.5" ATA drives -- totally free to anyone who wants them.  I need to
get them out of my house.


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Bryan J Smith          Professional, Technical Annoyance
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