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Comment: Re:I wonder (Score 1) 66

by pcwhalen (#46479885) Attached to: A Look at the NSA's Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool

I'm not sure what country you're from, but in America, morals are for suckers and poor people.

You are wrong.

I am an American, I am far from poor and I am no man's fool. I live by the moral compass taught to me by my parents, my church and my conscience and I have done very well in my 50 years on Earth.

The most precious commodity is the ability to sleep at night.



by bloodhawk (#46478457) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

Do you carry your SATA drive around with you wherever you go and attach it to every computer you use?

Absolutely, my backpack which has my laptop goes everywhere with me. It has 2 external drives and a handful of USB sticks. around 5 or 6 TB in all and anything extra critical I make I put on another drive which I store safely. access is 100 times faster and more reliable than accessing google. I know that the service isn't going to be discontinued in X months time and I can be confident on who has access to my data. Even my keys for the car has 2 USB sticks on it with 256GB of data that is always with me even if there is somewhere I go without my backpack. Google can't hope to match the ease of access, vailability, security or speed.

Comment: Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 99

by timeOday (#46474437) Attached to: Tested: Asus Chromebox Based On Haswell Core i3
I like the idea of these cheap little boxes! But it should be noted that the $180 one you linked does not include an HDD/SSD, nor an ethernet port(!?) (No USB3 either, though it does have high-speed expandability via a Thunderbolt port).

I know it's not really the same, but I've had good luck with used laptops. Even if I use them primarily headless or with an external keyboard/mouse, you get low power consumption, built-in battery backup, and a built-in screen which is handy sometimes. The only trick is finding cheaper used laptops that have some sort of digital video out, not just a VGA port.

Comment: Re:If you want to hoard bits... (Score 1) 943

by fuzzyfuzzyfungus (#46472399) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?
There's also the matter of your expected retrieval case: tapes almost certainly beat HDDs in the archival timeframe, so suck it up and pay up; and they (if reasonably modern) can be alarmingly fast at the linear reads and writes associated with doing full restores or fast backups of data that have been suitably lined up to be shoved onto tape.

On the other hand, they are almost perversely non-random-access(doubly so if you are talking about a multi-tape set with library swapping, more than doubly so if you are talking about a multi-tape set larger than your library can handle with junior-admin swapping), so the 'somebody fucked up, they need File X to be like it was three months ago' scenario sucks.

Nearline or consumer SATA on undistinguished controllers aren't quite as zippy; but they might as well be a RAMdisk compared to tape if you are doing small-scale restores, though probably not as fast if de-icing a much larger dataset for wholesale restoration of multiple systems.
