jones_supa - Slashdot User

Comment Cheap laptops (Score 1) 215

by jones_supa on Thursday November 27, 2014 @03:14AM (#48472625) Attached to: Consortium Roadmap Shows 100TB Hard Drives Possible By 2025

Cheap $300 laptops these days slap in a 500GB HDD to satisfy the requirement of a hard drive. A basic 500GB disk is what they can source cheaply and easily from the market. However, I suspect that they could ship a smaller capacity disk as well, if that allows the manufacturer to shave off some of the laptop's price. What follows is, that I also suspect that when making a 128 GB SSD becomes cheaper to manufacture than a mechanical HDD, many low-end laptops will move to the SSD format.

Comment Re:This is your big draw? (Score 1) 152

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:46PM (#48470127) Attached to: Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case

They know that it increases page hits when everyone comes to complain about Bennett.

Comment Re:But does it support Haswell graphics? (Score 1) 66

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:41PM (#48470091) Attached to: DragonFly BSD 4.0 Released

Why is Intel HD Graphics called "i915", by the way? In my mind it always reminds of the 915G chipset from a decade ago.

Comment Re:No longer supports 32-bit architecture (Score 1) 66

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:35PM (#48470051) Attached to: DragonFly BSD 4.0 Released

Another OS that has dropped support for 32-bit architecture. This is probably not an issue for most users as 32-bit processors are less common these days. If you have an older machine with a 32-bit processor, you can't slap on the latest and greatest *nix OS.

PC-BSD also dropped 32-bit support a year ago.

Comment Re:Shyeah, right. (Score 1) 284

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @02:19PM (#48468495) Attached to: Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out?

Oh, I guess I was thinking it more from the perspective of a typical consumer. In enterprise environments, tape of course kicks ass.

Comment Re:Shyeah, right. (Score 1) 284

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @02:10PM (#48468419) Attached to: Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out?

Indeed. I cringe when people archive data on flash memory, for example.

Comment Re:How about over 10 years? (Score 1) 291

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:36PM (#48467439) Attached to: Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam?

That was 20 years ago.

Comment Re:Shyeah, right. (Score 1) 284

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @10:45AM (#48466611) Attached to: Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out?

So? It's still pretty good.

Comment Re:Shyeah, right. (Score 1) 284

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @08:33AM (#48465965) Attached to: Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out?

I have 1X DVDs going back to 99/2K that still read too, that is what happens when you don't buy crap brands.

This. I don't understand why people shun optical media so much. When a good burner and a good disc is used, it's still a great archival medium.

Comment Re:In Finland (Score 1) 516

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @08:21AM (#48465921) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places?

Thanks to the underground cabling, in Finland the last time I witnessed personally witnessed a power outage was in 2006 in thunderstorm, lasting for 2 minutes.

I can confirm this. In Finland you get premium electricity in most places. On the other hand, the amount of "sick" buildings is cropping up: there's moisture in structures, improperly configured ventilation, poor heating, and whatnot. :( But hey, you get proper power to read Slashdot.

Comment Re:For all the reliability worriers (Score 1) 438

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:54AM (#48465411) Attached to: How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive

600TB total writes - http://techreport.com/review/2...
800TB total writes, and some of these consumer grade drives start to fail - http://techreport.com/review/2...

I know, it's amazing. :)

Actually that story seems to still continue with two of the disks approaching 1.5 PB written.

Comment Re:Hybrids are where it's at (for me) (Score 1) 438

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:36AM (#48465351) Attached to: How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive

The problem is that the SSD cache of a hybrid disk is quite small; you can approach the same amount with your file system cache in the RAM, and it's faster anyway.

Comment Re:Price (Score 1) 438

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:27AM (#48465327) Attached to: How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive

The change is coming and once the Spindle drive disappears (like floppies), you'll wonder how we ever lived like that.

I already wonder that when I see my system sitting 99% time in iowait if a modern CPU is paired with any mechanical HDD. It's an almost unacceptable bottleneck.

Comment Re:Empty article.. (Score 1) 438

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:23AM (#48465309) Attached to: How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive

True. In the same way that it is hard to increase the rotational speed, getting past the average 12 ms seek time is tricky.

Comment Re:Ever notice (Score 1) 438

by jones_supa on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:08AM (#48465271) Attached to: How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive

Not in meaningful amounts.

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