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23-07-2008, 01:14 AM
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Optically Obsessed
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 83
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Originally Posted by Dennis
You must be a young whippersnapper Roger – I remember using punch cards and having to compile programs overnight in batch, as well as 8” floppy discs on an IBM System36 mid-range computer! LOL!
Cheers
Dennis
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Originally Posted by avandonk
In 1968 my PDP 8 had 2k of memory. We quickly up graded to 4k then would you believe 32k! Oh such joy and power! Whats a hard drive?
We were far more cunning to keep the code very slim as we had to.
Bert
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Originally Posted by leon
We started with the Comondore 64 back in the old days, actually it belonged to my some, now that was some real technology in those days. 
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My goodness, I am feeling young at 50 (compared to some of you guys)  
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Originally Posted by AlexN
I have 3Tb in my desktop, 160gb in my webserver, 60gb in my notebook, 50gb in my gateway and a WD 1tb NAS...
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Yeah, it's a worry - the more storage I get, the more I store  - life was much simpler with floppy disks 
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Originally Posted by g__day
Being on my 15 custom built PC, I have about 8 active round the house plus a NAS - so about 300GB on a normal node, same on the NAS and 700 on my personal PC - it all adds up, and is very cheap nowadays.
When I started a 5MB Winchester cost $5,000 exc tax and you had to write your own device driver!
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Gee, we've come so far eh! HD space is so cheap, I run two 500 gb drives (replicated) to store my photos but I still burn to DVD.........
Peter
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23-07-2008, 06:38 PM
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Old Man Yells at Cloud
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rockingham WA
Posts: 3,435
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TRS-80, Amstrad, Vic-20, C-64/128, microbee, DSE Wizard..... some Texas Instruments thing a mate had....
Ahhh the memories!!
BTW, the microbee was Aussie designed and built, sold all over the world (particularly popular in Swedish schools!!??) and competed well for a while with the Apple but microbee were a bit slow to adopt the PC-clone culture with their 'Matilda' and Australia's most succesfull competitive computer manufacturer was dead...
A nice little side-story from an email on the net by Owen Hill(microbee)
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For the record Jim Rowe did not design the Microbee although he did join
the company for a short time around 1986. Jim did design EDUC 8 (1979 or
so) and legend has it that Jim's computer was probably the first
hobby-built PC in the world! It was published in Electronics Australia
just prior to the MITS Altair article appeared in Popular Electronics
the US. The editors of Popular Electronics did later admit, reluctantly, that EA had published the first home PC design.
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Jim Rowe may be a familiar name to anyone that buys Silicon Chip magazine.
Last edited by MrB; 23-07-2008 at 06:53 PM.
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25-07-2008, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bundoora,Victoria
Posts: 35
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well i have about 2TB.
1TB in my Monster of a Desktop, it's a monster in more ways then one.
250GB in my laptop and about 800GB NAS.
Back in the good old days 
Started with the TRS-80 Model I, then upgraded to the Commodre 64 then the 128 with dual drives 
I can still remember the advert for the commodore 64....
"Are you keeping up with the commodore, as it's keeping with you."
People used to think that we were talking about cars. 
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25-07-2008, 07:52 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Geraldton, WA
Posts: 1,440
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Laptop only has 40Gb + 160Gb external, but the one inside has 2x 160Gb Sata and a 250Gb IDE. Shed puter (home imaging rig) has 40GB for the system and 400Gb IDE for Data. Just picked up 5 New drives on Ebay, 3 x SATA 160Gb, 1x 400Gb IDE and a 160Gb IDE for $250 
Bill
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25-07-2008, 10:35 PM
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Optically Obsessed
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 83
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Originally Posted by Glenhuon
Laptop only has 40Gb + 160Gb external, but the one inside has 2x 160Gb Sata and a 250Gb IDE. Shed puter (home imaging rig) has 40GB for the system and 400Gb IDE for Data. Just picked up 5 New drives on Ebay, 3 x SATA 160Gb, 1x 400Gb IDE and a 160Gb IDE for $250
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Gee, that's not a bad buy
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28-07-2008, 11:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Wynnum West, Brisbane.
Posts: 4,166
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I got 3x500gig drives in raid 5 for storage on the linux box, so about 900gig there but it's almost full and about 500 meg each in 2 other desktops. Sort of waiting for SSD drives to get big and cheap before buying any more
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29-07-2008, 09:55 PM
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Optically Obsessed
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 83
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Originally Posted by Tandum
I got 3x500gig drives in raid 5 for storage on the linux box, so about 900gig there but it's almost full and about 500 meg each in 2 other desktops. Sort of waiting for SSD drives to get big and cheap before buying any more |
You and me both.... 
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02-08-2008, 02:05 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Wynnum West, Brisbane.
Posts: 4,166
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I guess your talking about SSD drives. I see 64gig drives at $1200 + tax just now but they are doing 120 MB/s transfers instead of the current 12 to 25 MB/s
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05-08-2008, 01:15 AM
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Widefield wuss
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Caboolture, Australia
Posts: 6,994
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64gb SSD for $1200 is actually pretty reasonable... You could almost justify that to yourself... until you realise that just $600 more buys a QHY8
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05-08-2008, 01:50 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Gold Coast
Posts: 420
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gee, I have a 120 gig hard drive in the lappy and a 40 gig external hard drive (Somewhere) not attached to anything, I normally just burn the raw files to dvd when I get 4 gig of them, if I want to go through the data again I would rather start from the begining. Mind you I'm not capturing video.
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05-08-2008, 01:55 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Geeveston, Tasmania
Posts: 889
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I've got much more storage space than I really need in 3 computers plus a laptop. An external tape drive is used to (sometimes) back it up.
However the biggest single disk I have in the PVR (Topfield 5000). It's a single 400GB drive which gives me about 120 hours of TV recording. It's about two thirds full at the moment.
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15-10-2008, 02:27 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Broken Hill NSW Australia
Posts: 4,110
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Hi Roger,
Ever since getting involved in digital astro imaging I never seem to have enough storage on my hard drive. Over the last 6 years I have updated my laptop several times but it seems to take very little time before my hard drive becomes crowded again.
Think I have solved the problem though now, at least for a while. My new Toshiba has 640 GB That is 2 x 320 GB drives and I have a 320 GB satellite drive that I dump my images onto direct from my DMK. I think my current 960 GB capacity will do for a while.
Regards
Trevor
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16-10-2008, 10:49 AM
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Tech Guru
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Sydney
Posts: 2,902
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I finally got sick of a fragile 300GB no name NAS, redeployed its HDD and got a Western Digital MyWorldBook 500GB capacity 1 gigabit network connection NAS for $199 from Office Works to replace it. It has worked fine - very reliable, a tad slow, a tad difficult to change workgroups (my workgroup was the Original Optus Broadband @Home setup - MyWorldBook won't allow you to enter the @ symbol in a workgroup name).
So with NAS or SAN on a gigabit network - its real easy to add capacity!
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18-11-2008, 12:42 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 129
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rofl, I feel young but at the same time feel old...
I was happy to have missed out on the punch cards, but mum use to get upset at me taping over her country music tapes...
Cant remember where the first machine was called but it was a gift from a friend, quickly replace with a brand new released system80...
Then the bug bit and it only let go of late, finally got bored with computers...
Storage wise, my son has my server as a games machine and that has 160gb storage on the slave drive...(full of course)...
My tv has about 60 gb stored on the drive as the partition for the tv to use is only 20gb and not necassary for anything except the tv app..
My laptop is about 60 gb down now and about 20 gb left...
the slave drive in the server is formatted with reiserfs and the master has 2 partitions, one ntfs and other is ext3..
tv is ext3 for both and my laptop is ext3 also...
I am hoping to get either a new laptop or a larger drive, who knows, at the moment a house move is going to happen and then I may just go sicko and buy a tractor instead...
So if anyone has a spare tb drive, I shall try and fill it with junk...
One thing i do like about using ext3, seems to store more and better access...but then there are good filesystems available linux and each has a bonus for certain situations...
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07-12-2008, 03:57 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sydney
Posts: 52
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about 30Tb in an EMC symmetrix.
at home though i only have about 2Tb. Planning on getting another Tb drive soon.
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08-12-2008, 11:43 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Beaumont Hills NSW
Posts: 2,900
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I have an old PC in the ceiling still connected to power and fully operational. I test it every two or three weeks.
It has DOS 6.2, Multimate, Wordstar, Symphony and Dataflex plus a lot of other generally useless junk and 1 MB of memory. However it has enough capacity to do all the essentials of a computer still. It has the princely capacity of a 20MB MFM hard drive with 15 MB unused.
It has a 2MHz processor and it can start up from cold. I can enter my accounts on the spread sheet or look up an address in the DB in less than a minute and shut down. Slightly less than the time it takes Windows XP to load on a 3.3 Ghz machine!
What the hell do we need TB's for except to collect more data than you can ever use
Barry
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08-12-2008, 02:55 PM
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Dazzled by the Cosmos.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 11,820
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
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I guess it depends on what you do with the PC?
Recording 1˝ hours of HDTV generates a file of the order of 7-10Gb and an evening spent capturing AVI’s of the Moon or Jupiter can easily produce 30-40 Gb of data.
Cheers
Dennis
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08-12-2008, 10:09 PM
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Widefield wuss
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Caboolture, Australia
Posts: 6,994
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I've easily caught 250gb of data recording lunar images with the DBK31 in one night of good seeing...
I usually capture around 550mb worth of images a night during deep sky imaging... sometimes more, sometimes less, but I store all raw data, I dont delete anything. You never know, one day you might learn a new processing routine that will help one of your old images, I have most of the videos from my planetary/lunar imaging, every RAW DSLR file I've ever taken (in 5 odd years of photography) every .FIT file from my QHY8.... I store these things for rainy days, new programs with new, more powerful processing tools..
I just bought another TB HDD for my desktop, and a 2TB network attached device... Bringing my total now, to 10Tb of storage space (not including my windows/installed programs disks), I think about 4.1TB of it all is free...
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10-12-2008, 08:50 AM
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Black Sky Zone
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Western Victoria
Posts: 776
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
I have an old PC in the ceiling still connected to power and fully operational. I test it every two or three weeks.
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Barry
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just like old grand parents in the retirement village
a short visit every two or three weeks
to see if there still fully operational
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22-03-2009, 04:44 PM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Broken Hill N.S.W
Posts: 3,305
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Filled up my 400 gb external cant take no more entries so over to big w grabbed a verbatim 1tb $185 so now comes the lenghty transfer i,m guessing 8 hours to complete all the files copied over.
Then my son has a smile on his face cause he has dibs on the old 400.
Cheers Kev.
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