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Comment Re:An hour? (Score 1) 162

The SAS 6G and SATA 3 (6Gbps) models of SSD go up to over 500GB now. Reading that in a few minutes is no big deal. Even the SATA II Intel 320 series does 600GB and sequential reads at 270 MB/s, which would be 600GB in (600000/270 seconds) - 2222 seconds or just over 37 minutes. My laptop has a better data rate, but I use off-brand components :-). This is no problem at all.

You have to use Western Digital Caviar Black 3.5" SATA 500GB hard drive (WD5002AALX).

Comment Re:An hour? (Score 1) 162

You won't be able to push any more than 18 gigabytes in a minute through SATA-II and that's in theory. So theoretically one could read a 500 GB drive in ~28 minutes, but the drives just aren't nowhere near as fast. Then again, maybe your Barracua is many fold faster than Barracudas. I know my Sonny cassette player was faster than that from Sony.

You should try Sany. Way faster than even Sonny. The only problem I had with it is it would only read the cassette once and then you need a new player... and a new cassette.

Comment Re:Who do you want reading your docs? (Score 1) 200

What self-respecting conspiracy theorist buys a foil hat?
How would you know it isn't defective or hasn't been tampered with?

No, the truly paranoid must make their own hats.

Is it bugged? I'm asking you: IS IT BUGGED?! Why won't you answer me? OMG, maybe the CIA got to you. Shit, I've gotta hide somewhere. But there's nowhere to hide! NOWHERE TO HIDE!

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