[03:00] so my power went out [11:02] Morning. [12:54] Gah, gandi's domain registration parser for .fi failed [14:43] so i'm thinking of getting a WD Caviar Green 2TB drive [14:44] there are a few that are at the $80 mark [14:46] hmmm [14:46] those drives... [14:46] I *think* are the ones which have the head parking issue. [14:46] however that maybe old and be resolved by now [14:48] http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=63051 [14:49] let me go ask for you [14:49] ok [14:49] The drives "park" the heads every 8 seconds, so they park, unpark, park, unpark over 1,000 times per day in a normal environment. I had to write a program to ping the drives every 6 seconds to stop this... [14:49] That... [14:49] anyway, let me go ask if its sorted. [14:49] just know this is on ebay [14:49] WD drive? my netbook does that when it wakes up from suspend :( [14:50] (i blame systemd of course) [14:50] even if sorted issue i may end up getting one of those [14:50] Smiley: That's not necessarily a bad thing, for a "low-use" storage device. For a system drive or high-use drive? Sure, it's terrible. [14:50] also i'm not using it in my system [14:50] ersi: nod. [14:50] Just wanted to add that. Not saying anyone was wrong or anything :-) [14:50] For long term storage, short term usage its great. [14:51] i have a exterinal usb cord that i can hook it up to [15:00] the idea anyways is to use the 2TB hard drive to move the g4video stuff that i have uploaded [15:02] ADD Moment: We Need to work on a laser disk that can hold all of Mobile Me [15:03] that type of disk tech would/could last as long as CDs did [15:17] i found a 3TB drive for 102.50 [15:17] thats with shipping [15:19] also check external drives, i got me a 3TB external one for less than an internal would have cost [15:21] that's frickin' cheap [15:21] i checked exterinal drives [15:22] i can only find the desktop exterinals and there more then what i payed for current exterinal drive [15:35] yup [15:35] the flooding artifically inflated the prices. [15:36] That feels like an gross simplification. [15:37] In a pretty complicated manufacturing chain [15:45] yah [15:46] how about there was a flood, now prices are high [15:48] "Robocop 4: Not So Civil": https://archive.org/details/g4tv.com-video19053 [15:50] Turok Level Designer Interview: https://archive.org/details/g4tv.com-video19033 [15:51] this is why i need a bigger hard drive [15:55] i'm finding hd clips of aots before the channel was in HD [15:57] nevermind [15:57] G4 HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast of G4 that launched on December 8, 2008 [15:58] ersi: for some reason the aria2c timeout seems to have worked for the robots files. thanks for the pointer [15:59] Schbirid: Yay :-) [16:02] looks like the video was not from broadcast [16:26] anyone know a tool to copy single files into not-yet existing subdirectories? eg "copy test /a/b/c/" where the imaginative tool "copy" would create the /a/b/c/ structure if needed [16:26] rsync only does that for one missing subdirectory (like mkdir, not mkdir -p) [16:28] nvm, i will just use wget -x :D [17:45] http://twitter.com/BurgerKing [17:49] da fuq [18:02] ooh that is so good [18:15] heh [19:19] so i got a 2TB exterinal hard drive [19:19] the usb only type [19:26] fun. what's it for [19:26] ? [19:27] Storing things to upload to IA for what I've read above :) [19:27] i have alot of g4tv.com videos [19:28] ah :) [23:54] 7.5 hours to test my new hard drive [23:56] after reading all the latest research on hard drives there is no good anything for fleshing out possible bad drives. All the "methods" only catch DOA drives and do not guarantee a pass through the 3-4 month failure mark [23:57] the solution is RAID 1 or 6