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- super_spyder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42a little lube makes everything go smoother
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -12/+42Finally, a computer on which installing Vista is possible.
- SuperSloth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25"We can fit more in a tight space if we lube it up!"
ORLY? - superfan99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14YA RLY
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Umm, this line doesn't make sense:
"The result could be computers, PDAs, and even cell phones equipped with 3.5-inch drives that can store a terabyte of data or more."
3.5" drives are bigger than most PDAs, and don't fit in even desktop replacement laptops. Laptops get 2.5" hard drives (sometimes 1.8" for thin and light laptops), PDAs get 1" hard drives, cell phones get 1" or smaller. - chrismcelligott, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Imagine editing a Raw HD movie on your MacBook Pro!
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13FLAC
- Pharaoh777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11you wouldn't have spent that year in college?
- Rhaegal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12The perversion, it's everywhere!!!
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Oops. Stupid 60 second editnig time...
If you compress with FLAC, from what I've Googled, it generally compresses an audio cd up to 50%. So, if an audio CD is 80 minutes and 700 MB, 50% of that is 350 MB.
So, you can fit 350MB into 1 TB (1,048,576 MB) 2996 times. Therefore, you'd have 80 minutes times 2996, which is 239,680 minutes, 3995 hours, or 166 days of music compressed in FLAC form. - epilonious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7OH CHRIST! Pharaoh figured it out...... SOMEBODY GET THE MEAT!
- epilonious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Okay, this digg segment wins "biggest misread-n-double-take" award. Just one 's' becoming a 'c' and hilarious questions ensue.
"If it hadn't been for that horse..." - JK1150, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61 TB drives sound nice, but in a decade I hope we will be away from moving parts hard drives.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@ludwig
In my experience, iTunes handles a library split across a fixed and removable hard drive perfectly well. - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Johnny Mnemonic ftw.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"You fanboys will burn in hell, I hope you know that."
haha I'm not a fanboy. In fact, I intend to get Vista the moment it comes out. But that doesn't mean jokes about it are never ever allowed... - pantuky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I concur. This is old news. I heard about it last month.
- Pharaoh777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5BEEF - It's what's for DINNr.
- cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4just do not use the hard drive's lubricant
- ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@ludwig (& sbgskl)
Same here - I've had to do it a number of times, and it has always been fine for me. - framitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4By the time Seagate perfects this new lubrication technology the Next Big thing will have been released that will make it obsolete.
This was announced a while back. I suspect that this is a lame attempt to boost their stock price.
With the worst customer support in the hard disk industry they have to do something to boost sales. - masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5And before someone yells at me because 50% is too much for FLAC compression, assuming you only get 60% (the range was around 50% to 60% on Google), you'd still get 139 days of music.
- thebman990, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bag Phones FTW!
- macbwizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Who calls for HDD customer support? About their sales... they're the largest supplier of hard disks, I don't think they're worried about sales. Plus they just bought out Maxtor. Things aren't too bad at Seagate these days.
- stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"... even cell phones equipped with 3.5-inch drives that can store a terabyte of data or more."
Uh, perhaps if we're still in the early 90s with car phones. - CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That joke was done already.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4How many times is this story going to make the front page?
- MSDommell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow with digg now in version 3.0 you think there would be a "already been oh the digg frontpage 3 ***** times" bury it choice, or at least bring back the "old '*****' news" button
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Splitt3rxx
"A dedicated graphics card with DirectX® 9.0 support (5200FX anyone? this ancient piece of crap will run it)"
hey, Hey, HEY! That's my graphics card you're talking about! - doomtiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"You fanboys will burn in hell, I hope you know that."
The Nazis will shoot you for using a comma splice. - TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"""""I am so tired of the jokes about such high vista requirements. HELLO RETARDS! a $600 computer can run vista, just look at the minimum requirements""""""
According to microsoft windows XP can run with 128 MB of Ram. Have you ever tried that? It is crazy-go-nuts. 2 Ghz minimum is pretty crazy for what they say it can run on. I mean my computers are above that, but I know a LOT of people with XP who is not above that.
""""I remember an article about the price of a PC that meets the requirements of each windows OS when it was released, vista is the cheapest, to run windows 98 when it came out you would have paid over twice as much."""""
That has little to do with the OS and more to do with technology getting cheaper.
Eric Wilson - Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Orly? I have never had a seagate drive fail, so I haven't dealt with thier customer support :P
- kevinHaney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They just need to get Perpendicular...
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html - blargman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm so sick of upcoming drive technologies, every damn drive technology has been 10+ years away since 1999. ffs just quit it already.
- kazem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seriously. Also, won't the reservoir of nano-particles eventually run out? I suppose you could fill it with far more than you'd ever need.
- optikknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone who uses a laptop as their primary computing environment (at school, on the road) would concur ;)
- Pharaoh777, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9This is so June 2006.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8I'm gettin' all lubed up just thinkin' about it.
(/end firefly reference) - rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Don't forget the graphics card array!
- ronin2040, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow! awesome! Thats totally better than putting 3x 400gb harddrives into a RAID 0,1, or 5 array for $0.25 per gig!
oh wait, its NOT
(check compusa--400gb drive for $99.99, and I'm sure newegg has somethin better) - Lanser84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even if the cutting edge has moved on by the time this becomes widely available, it may well be used somewhere. Tapes are still cheaper than CDs for audio.
- xNaquada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In my experience, iTunes is bloated and horribly slow (win32). Also it forces more bloat when it forces Quicktime7 to install.
- takitus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7yeah old story, like 3rd time on digg
- ronin2040, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sorry if that was mean, btw....
- khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yay! My 1 1/2"x4 1/2" cell phone can now be larger and heavier than before! Time to bust out the ol' JNCO pants again!
- macbwizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just because someone in Seagate filed a patent doesn't mean that this even works or will make it into a future product. Patent watching websites are far too eager to assume that every patent makes its way into a product, but in reality few do.
- Mocib, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Blah... it's time to switch to non-spinning mass-storage system, like the holographic system. The fewer moving parts, the better.
- hodyoaten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Putting a tech story with "lube" in the title is like trotting out the big red "Do Not Press" button. You can't help it. You're gonna click on it. I'm gonna click it too. We all will.
- RickyBennett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0man i have a computer with a pentium 1 cpu and 64 mb of ram running xp home ones
and i use to have a laptop running xp home with 128 mb of ram in it and it was slow - dzevchek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought the read/write head never touches the platter. So how does the lube help?
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