MetaFilter posts tagged with harddrives

I had a 3GB hard drive in a P75 in my 1971 Skylarks trunk once...

Dean Keaton — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:10:54 -0800

A hard drive in your car? Why would someone want to do that? The real question is, why wouldn't they. From geek to chic, platters of glass are paving the way towards a better car. One that can record every engine start, every missed oil change, every timing error and sensor alarm. One that could hold every book you've read, one that could save every song in your collection. Of course, DIY'ers started this whole damn thing, so everyone else can pay attention to the companies.

hockeyman — Sun, 28 Jul 2002 18:56:50 -0800

Intimate Media. As computers steadily move into every aspect of personal life, MiME proposes that instead of allowing intimate media to disappear into the computer, artifacts and systems should be designed to better promote human experiences around the collection, storage and sharing of intimate media. Interesting research by Philips. How will you share your personal artifacts in the future?

feelinglistless — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:50:39 -0800

"Err...hello...is that Alex Braganza? Sorry to disturb you ... my name is Kenny Patterson. No you don't know me. But I took my computer into PC World for repair and when I got it back they'd replaced my faulty hard disk with a reconditioned one which used to be your old machine. Thing is, they hadn't actually bothered to format the thing so now I've got all your personal details. Yes that right -- that's were I got your phone number." I imagine that's how the conversation would have started ...

prodigal — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:08:55 -0800

I've been trying to build this computer on Dell's site for about two straight weeks now. What would you do with 6 TFLOPS?

harmful — Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:35:44 -0800

"Welcome to the United Police State Of America." Number two Linux spokesman Alan Cox may have been a bit over the top in his reaction, but industry plans to integrate copy protection and rights management into future hard drives could cause all kinds of legal and technical nightmares.

grank — Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:19:59 -0800

180GB HD anyone? It's a bargain at only $2195.

sixfoot6 — Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:17:48 -0800

IBM has developed a new storage technology called Millepede which has more in common with old-school punch cards than it does with magnetic hard drives. The system uses a tiny heated sensor to mark a thin polymer layer, and can already store 400 gigabytes per square inch. And it will improve. Will we ever have enough important information to fill up such ridiculous amounts of space?