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

Any references for that? Even if true how the hell is that relevant, Assange is wanted for questioning on a set of charges that are pretty serious and merit extradition to Sweden. The UK has a strong history of extradition to the US, including of UK citizens so lets not think Assange was 'safe' in the UK. Isn't the reality that Assange is a bit of a douche and just wants to avoid questioning on this topic and is throwing about FUD and pretending to be a martyr to deflect attention away from the allegations.

For a man who preaches openness about the world he sure likes to hide behind things.

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

Errr no. The Daily Mail is owned by a different media magnate... Lord Rothermere.

Nice try at blaming Rupert Murdoch - owner of hugely nationalistic media in Australia, US and UK but a man who sold his nationality to expand his business empire, but the Daily Mail is a different type of nut, EVERYTHING in the world is either a) Hugely bad or b) Hugely good. Often in the same issue of the Mail a single product will both cause AND cure cancer.

Only real surprise in the article is that it didn't mention how this would impact house prices.

Negative. NAND flash w/o active management is NOT a "safe" storage medium, especially in larger sizes of MLC flash.

NAND cells love to flip bits/etc. just for the fun of it. Unless you have some active process to continually check bits and verify they haven't changed, I would not trust it for long term storage.

It's true that NAND is non-volatile and will store electrons for a long period of time, but there isn't too much of a guarantee that the information recorded stays in-tact for long, unpowered bits of time.