What am I going to do with 12tb hdd????

[Bookmem]

When I first started in computers, a 10MB HDD had a 14" platter and cost $450 JUST TO SHIP!! (And that was 1970s dollars,) I just bought a 12 TB drive. Don't have any idea what I'm going to do with all that capacity. I don't download 4k movies and don't play highend games that eat up disc space. I do have a Karaoke and DJ music collect that take up a couple of TBs but I already have that backed up a couple of time. But what the hey, for $90 including tax and shipping, I just couldn't resist.

[securitybreach]

Well its not hard to fill up... I have 49tb total on my desktop and I have used about 40%. Where did you find one for so cheap as they usually got for about $300 or so?

[Bookmem]

55 minutes ago, securitybreach said:

Well its not hard to fill up... I have 49tb total on my desktop and I have used about 40%. Where did you find one for so cheap as they usually got for about $300 or so?

eBay refurb. Something new on eBay where they certify the refurb.

[securitybreach]

Thanks

[abarbarian]

On 2/26/2024 at 4:55 PM, Bookmem said:

I just couldn't resist.

 

 

On 2/26/2024 at 6:41 PM, Bookmem said:

eBay refurb. Something new on eBay where they certify the refurb.

 

That is a neat service offered by E-Bay as they give a 12 month guarantee with the products. I recently bought a couple of small ssd's  through the scheme.

[Bookmem]

On 2/26/2024 at 11:43 AM, securitybreach said:

Well its not hard to fill up... I have 49tb total on my desktop and I have used about 40%. Where did you find one for so cheap as they usually got for about $300 or so?

Here is a link to the offer on eBay.

[b2cm]

On 2/26/2024 at 10:55 AM, Bookmem said:

When I first started in computers, a 10MB HDD

Those days I had a 5MB drive that was a pain to install and configure. Never had enough wordstar, microstat and games files to use max capacity.

[crp]

4 hours ago, b2cm said:

Those days I had a 5MB drive that was a pain to install and configure. Never had enough wordstar, microstat and games files to use max capacity.

I was lucky to get to use a PC with 2 floppy drives.

[Bookmem]

14 hours ago, b2cm said:

Those days I had a 5MB drive that was a pain to install and configure. Never had enough wordstar, microstat and games files to use max capacity.

My problem was compressing the data enough to run an entire accounting system for a Men's and Ladies clothing store on a 10mb drive.