03-30-2012, 04:16 PM | #91 |
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03-30-2012, 04:22 PM | #92 | |
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03-30-2012, 04:27 PM | #93 |
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Ha. My Calibre library is 41 GB. My audio book folder is another 43 GB.
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03-30-2012, 04:31 PM | #94 |
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12TB? Wow. Geesh, I remember way back when I thought my 1TB NAS was big.....I found out that DVD images and complete system backups can fill that pretty darn quick.
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03-30-2012, 04:48 PM | #95 |
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I remember in 1992, seeing an ad for a 9 gigabyte drive. It cost $3,000. Now you have more storage than that hanging from your keychain for a few dollars. Back in my day, we had 20 megabyte 5.25" full height hard drives, and we liked it!
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03-30-2012, 04:56 PM | #96 |
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Was that the $60 sale on Newegg? Bought 5 of those at the time (max limit) but I've pretty much used them all for internal local storage/DVR drive for the HTPCs. Was waiting for another sale or HDD price drop for my planned server rebuild (all hot-swap rackmounted case) but then the floods hit.
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03-30-2012, 05:01 PM | #97 | |
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I buy blu-rays that are worth the improvement in video/audio (use hidef digest ratings mostly) and everything else I just buy and rip the regular DVD. DVD lot listings on ebay used to be a huge boon. Last edited by sbroome; 03-30-2012 at 05:04 PM. |
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03-30-2012, 05:23 PM | #98 |
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OK. place me on the "expansion" side of the arguement (and the stylus side, as well).
Of course, I was also the one to wait for a laptop with an e-sata external port and wanted it before it became "semi" mainstream. In my profession, I have HUGE databases of information and the time saved per esata makes a great difference in effectivity. That is a particular case, I know others who use those ports for additional drives for movies, etc. Do most use it--probably not, is it useless, definitely not. I have 30 GB of music sorted (yes, it's ALL legal) and regularly used. I enjoy the idea of taking movies on SD cards with me when I travel, etc. and having selection. Sometimes what I want before I go on vacation is not what I want on a certain night (I'm picky, what can I say ). For work I have large pdf files that eat up tons of space but I would like to read "on-the-go". Then there is the huge questions of a) backup, b) privacy and separation and c) wireless connection. I want one device for several tasks. I do not trust "cloud storage" as it is not mine and I have no control over it. I want my backups with me and able to be applied without using a second device or webprocess. I want to add and take away without erasing from my device permanently. I don't want others gaining easier access to my libraries than need to be. I don't want to have to be "on grid" to get my information. I am not paranoid--I am private. And that is ok. I have been burned by roaming costs before and do not want to have to factor that in my thought process. WLAN etc. is usually off on my devices unless I need it. What I hear here are 2 sides: those who recognize general practical uses and those who personally have no use for them and deduct from that thought that no one else should, either. Give us miniSD just because it IS useful and those who don't need it can just not use it. As far as I see, the SDcardless are not (much) cheaper than qualitatively equal products with SDcard slots. |
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03-30-2012, 08:31 PM | #100 |
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I'd like an SD slot. But almost no matter what comes out, I'm sticking with my 3g Keyboard. It pretty much does what I need it to do.
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03-30-2012, 08:48 PM | #101 |
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Of course you are sure, you can admit it. You will feel better
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03-31-2012, 01:59 AM | #104 |
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I'm going back six or seven years and was working under contract to a large construction company. Company phones were Sony Ericsson. I had a K750i and two K800i rendered unusable in that year - the card slot was protected by a little rubber door/bung that never sealed properly, and regularly just broke clean off; dust and muck would get in there under the keyboard and the little joystick/button would stop working. End of phone. I and my work colleagues of that time were neither unlucky nor careless, simply working in more hostile environments (construction sites) than most, though the 'sticky' joystick on these SE models was a common problem to many users. As a lowly contract worker I didn't have a fancy 'pen-based' phone (SE P900 I think they were) but the folks who did were always losing their little sticks; OK, maybe they were careless with company phones <shrug> Doesn't mean it didn't happen - feel free to google "Sony Ericsson sticky joystick" or "lost my stylus pen" and see how many hits you get... Now none of the above is to suggest that there isn't a place for stylus-driven touch-screens (great point made further up re handwritten character-based languages for example) card slots, ports etc.. etc.. but it's certainly not the case that everything pre-2007 was wonderful and working perfectly, then the iPhone came along and ruined it all... Just sayin' |
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