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WD HDD Industry Will Be Supply Constrained Due to Thailand Flooding
AnimeJanai:
It's just too bad that so many things keep getting tossed. Each piece of electronics in the dumpster represents so many units of energy, ounces of petroleum, and ounces of metals wasted.
Ultra_Magnus:
--- Quote from: AnimeJanai on November 07, 2011, 11:41:54 AM ---@Ultra_Magnus
Probably because he buys as additional storage gigabytes are needed as opposed to people who swap out multiple drives for bigger ones.
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I guess that makes sense. Although constantly buying smaller drives must end up being more expensive.
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: Ultra_Magnus on November 12, 2011, 11:08:31 AM ---
--- Quote from: AnimeJanai on November 07, 2011, 11:41:54 AM ---@Ultra_Magnus
Probably because he buys as additional storage gigabytes are needed as opposed to people who swap out multiple drives for bigger ones.
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I guess that makes sense. Although constantly buying smaller drives must end up being more expensive.
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You start out at 20 GB drives, get a 100 GB one, then a 250 GB one. You are now full and have no more slots for drives, so as you buy a 500GB one you remove the 20 GB one. As you get full the next time you but a 1 TB drive and swap out the 100 GB one. Next time a 2TB one and swap out the 250 GB.
Meaning you are now at 500, 1TB and 2TB drives.
The other way of doing it is, hmm my drives are full. I'll buy 2 TB drives and remove the 250, 500, 1TB ones, ending up with one drive less and 250 GB more space.
I have done both. Most recently I did the bottom one and replaced 3 drives with 2 larger ones (keeping 2 of the ones I had).
kitamesume:
^ i don't retire old drives tho, i use them as some sort of portable HDDs, well giving them their own case and the SATA-to-USB hubs should do the trick, even if they kick the bucket... well its something like an extra large flash drive =P
CharredChar:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on November 17, 2011, 09:06:09 PM ---^ i don't retire old drives tho, i use them as some sort of portable HDDs, well giving them their own case and the SATA-to-USB hubs should do the trick, even if they kick the bucket... well its something like an extra large flash drive =P
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I still have a few IDE drives sitting around, though a few came from modded XBoxes. lol What to do with those? Yeah, scrap them.
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