Geek alert!: Check out my new hard-drive!!

[CanuckAmok]

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10023
80 Gigs, 5400RPM, 8Mb buffer, no AC power required, not much bigger than a deck of cards!

It'll be here next week, and I'm already hopping with antici--pation I'm such a nerd!!!!!!

edit: had to retape my glasses!

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Congrats! That should hold a lot of porn

:bounce:

[Kamika]

2. not to mention star trek episodes

and b5

[CanuckAmok]

3. It's actually for my vinyl music collection...

800 or so LPs all burned to MP3PRO over the last few months.

I don't need to carry the Star Trek episodes with me; I have them all committed to memeory. MUHOYY GLAAAVEN FLAAVEN!

[Kamika]

6. god I'm a nerd

I actually knows and laughed at MUHOYY GLAAAVEN FLAAVEN!

[quispquake]

9. Yay! Another Vinyl Fan!!!

I've been burning a bunch of my faves over the last few years too...Have a blast with it! It's a lot of fun to be able to centrallize all of the MP3's!!!
pp23

[private_ryan]

4. it can used as backup too , right?

off house back just in case? I might get one. All my eggs are in this computer and if something like a fire happens...

[Draven]

5. Dang...

nice HD. Mine is only 20 GB and it's almost full of MP3's. I feel inferior. I guess size does matter...

[Kellanved]

7. nerd contest: I've silenced my system today

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[hlthe2b]

8. I have the 20gb model they make--

very, very useful, although I've been warned not to try to use it as a "bang around portable," like you would the little usb jumpdrives.

[CanuckAmok]

10. No, I won't.

I will be using it as a portable, but I'm putting it in a padded camera case inside my laptop bag. That should be secure enough.

As far as the off-house backup, we already to that. Mrs. Amok and I save vital files on both our laptops, and I have my business files on a Kensington pullout drive I put in a fire-safe if we ever go away for more than a couple of days.

[CanuckAmok]

11. By the way...are you happy with LaCie?

I don't know anyone else with any of their products. I just 'chanced' it. None of the brands I know well offer such a large drive with those features.

[hlthe2b]

13. Thus far... I bought it as necessity when one of my laptops

blew the motherboard when a surge "protector," didn't.... I had Compusa back up the hard drive onto the LaCie and it seems to be pretty reliable. I admittedly have not been as cautious as you in doing regular back-ups and I had lots of stuff there that hadn't yet been transferred to my desktop machine. Had they not had this little jewel as a solution for me, I don't know what I would have done. I suppose I could have backed up on a zillion CDs, but that would have been painful.

[CanuckAmok]

14. Of course, one EMP bomb, and this is all moot...

http://popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001/9/e-bomb/print.phtml

Talking Heads' "Nothing but Flowers" comes to mind...

[hlthe2b]

15. Hmmmm. Well, sometimes, I think I would be better suited to life in

19th century America, anyway. I embrace technology, but that doesn't mean I'm not aggravated by it at the same time.

Nonetheless, when we look at where the Bushies want to put billions/trillions of defense dollars (starwars technology, probably this moon/mars adventure) these kind of low tech attacks seem more and more likely. And we will all be left holding the bag...

[BigDaddyLove]

12. I've got the Lacie 180Gig 7200rpm model.......

that I use for video editing.

Lacie rocks.

[ET Awful]

16. You want to see a cool hard drive, check this out :)

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0401/04010804toshibahdd.asp

[CanuckAmok]

17. Wow, what an age in which to live...

Seriously, I'm amazed on an nearly daily basis by technological advancements. I wonder how much this age is like the Industrial Revolution, in a "hey Martha, look at that!" sense...

Incidentally, Mrs. Amok still has her first laptop. 14 lbs, and a whopping 4Mb hard drive.