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Comment Re:I can answer that! (Score 1) 474

The typical computer user thinks that if he drags the small icon from the URL bar in IE/Firefox/Chrome to his desktop he has "saved" the webpage to his computer, he doesn't know the difference between a link, a shortcut and a document.

I didn't know you could drag the favicon to the desktop to create a shortcut to the page. huh, learn something every day.

Comment Yeah (Score 4, Insightful) 435

Today's kids have grown up with the net. It is so in-graved into today's society for most that most kids don't even think about it. The net is nothing special now like it was years ago. I remember years ago when the net first came around to everyone. It was something special and new then. I used to spend hours just looking around and finding new and different things. Now I mainly go to the few websites I like. It went from a new fascinating thing to simply a tool to get the job done. The magic is gone from the net now that it is everywhere and used by almost everyone. Just comes with the times.

Comment Re:No... (Score 0) 165

Hitachi actually has this. You can create a large thin provisioned volume on a dynamic pool and Hitachi can grow and shrink it as needed. It's true that the OS will only see the large volume but it's a start in the right direction to reclaim extra space when it's not used.
Also, we just purchased a 50TB Hitachi SAN with Fibrechannel and iSCSI for only $110,000. Enterprise can be had for less but that is educational cost also.

Comment We already know about it (Score 0) 224

Businesses already know that most data is stored once and never looked at again. The simple solution would be to offer multiple locations to store data, one for frequently accessed data and one for archival, etc. The problem comes down to is training. There are a lot of people that can barely use a computer and the whole concept of the multiple folders would confuse them. Another solution is to solve the issue with software. There are several archival solutions that will look at the file accessed date and either move it to cheaper disk or even tape. It leaves a stub file in place in the original location and if a user tries to access the file, it will pop up a box saying "please wait while the file is restored". This solution is nice in where the users don't have to change how they save data but it is harder to manage. You have your data spread across multiple systems instead of one and backups could become harder. Overall, it just depends on which direction you want to go with your data and what makes the most sense.

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