thats what you get for buying from a company that only uses components from the cheapest bidder

just look at the darn space shuttles!

and then Phoenix will be buying his own shuttle soon no doubt!

LOL @ NoelG


Didn't know Dell built Shuttles anyway

i was referencing the type of companies who just get the lowest builder to supply vital components for thier product, rather than the larger picture


no shuttle yet noel

but i really want to save up to fly Virgin Galactic
110K though, dropping in price as demand picks up

well then keep demanding Phoenix you never know you may only have to pay with your 1TB...if Sir Branson is in need of 1TB that is...bet he has enough as it is already...

noel, as mentioned before
1TB of disks today costs under 450 quid
perhaps you were mislead into thinking i spent a fortune on disks, but this ofcourse is not the case

NoelG, have I offered you this before ? If not, I can see if I can hook you up with a slice of the 3TB I have at work ? Just a thought ...

only 3 jak? bloody ell, the place i used to work must of generated mroe than 3TB of raw data a year (it was a hedge fund with some statistical arbitrage, and used some fancy genology theory work to find patterns in financial market data, go figure) company was 5 years old, we had about 18TB of data in our SAN

all fiber channel disks on an FC SAN, disks cost about 1k each (146GB versions)
arrays cost way more, and the fabric deployment cost about the price of a large 4 bed semi in london :P

lol ! Hey, come on, it's only for my music and sh1t

now if that were true, it would be bloody l33t

we had 2 80GB in Raid0 on our own little tech server for music and stuff, save us all having the same stuff locally