...but I appreciate what their marketing team has done for the rest of the headphone industry...

...is that in a properly-designed SSD, there is no such thing as data fragmentation. You lay out the nand as a circular log and write to every bit of it once before you overwrite, and maintain a set of pointers that translates LBA to memory addresses.

Pretty much every SSD vendor out there has figured this out a few years ago.

I have a PDF scan of all important IDs/health cards/etc on a drive in my safe deposit box. It's also where I store my long term email/document archives.

I keep a mirror at home, which is what I update most frequently and any time I go to the bank, I just swap the external home drive with the one in the safe deposit box, go home and rsync the current data to it.

My safe deposit box key lives in a floor safe in my home which should survive even a gas leak explosion/tornado/etc.

-- Dave

Now that you can easily fit 3-6TB in an external enclosure, you can do some pretty flexible things with backups.

Here's my system.

Local 3TB drive in system, mirrored to 2nd internal 3TB drive
Nightly, I rsync that data to a 3TB mirrored NAS
Weekly I rsync that data to a 2nd 3TB mirrored NAS
Monthly, I rsync to an external 3TB enclosure via USB

When I go to the bank to deposit checks every month or two, I swap the 3TB external USB enclosure with an identical one in my safe deposit box.

Only costs me $50 a year for the safe deposit box, and I don't have to worry about my neighbors breaking anything.

Also, I have a 2nd manual version of my backup scripts featuring --delete for when storage starts to fill.

-- Dave

Have you looked at the price point of the ioScale cards?

Bottom of my settings page...

"Download a copy of your Facebook data."

-- Dave

The link is here in your settings: https://www.facebook.com/settings

Link is at the bottom... "Download a copy of your Facebook data."

-- Dave

...Radiation-wise...

That's one of the important pieces to take away from this... we can get to Mars and survive the trip... and can likely do a return trip.

Oh, why the hell am I never logged in when I post stuff like this, lol...

...I use it so that I get a new pack of socks every 6 months...

Nothing better than coming home from work to a fresh package of socks!

ERMAGHERD SCHOCKS!

The artist draws everything in vector and often puts a lot of little details into each frame.
A vector viewer is available (swf) allowing you to zoom in and appreciate all the little details.

http://www.alpha-shade.com/0Comics/pages.php

Check them out. Definitely one of the most artsy comics I've seen online.

-- Dave

We've been touching monitors for quite a long time without any issue. It's been completely unnecessary up until now, but I doubt there will be many issues with monitors finally responding to user touch and doing something useful in return.

-- Dave

Been using NX for years, I love it.

Wish there were some more updates to nomachine... are there any other clients out there that are more up to date?

You're forgetting that a hybrid drive would be using NAND flash vs DRAM... NAND is a NVRAM and won't have to be flushed to disk in the event of a power outage. It is persistent.

That said, they may still use a little bit of DRAM cache in the drive.

-- Dave