Turtle...hard drives...
Cheap and keep filling them from my working HDD's. Use them instead of the old
days with 8"...then 5.25"...then 2.5" floopy's then CD's and DVD's
Get a gun safe (have a six rifle) instead of an office safe. Both about the same
size will have the gun safe in the $200-$400 range....while the office safe
of similar size will be over $K
Then get a few small safes sized for files. Can stack a few of them next to
my rifles in that gun safe
Not just from thieves, but fire, which is the bigge
Gun safe is good for 2 hours fire and by then the interior gets to ~200*F, but
with the small file safe's...it will be days before their interior cooks
Main heat routing is via the bolts holding down the gun safe. Even though the
good ones will have another insulator for those bolts...it will bring the heat
into it during a fire
Costco has Seagate's for under $100 and in the 2TB to 4TB range. I like
Western Digital better, but they are not on sale often. Get mine from Amazon
Make a boot HDD with every new computer and store that in the safe within a safe
Then copy info to another 2-4 TB disk and store that in the safe within a safe...
As for the thread topic...marketing wins over technology every time on these forums...
Kinda sorta agree and dis-agree on the "myth about warped rotors". Generally
speaking, it is improper bedding or need to re-bed...but have come across
many which were actually warped (dial indicator said so)
New myth in the making...modern friction material does NOT out-gas...nope, not
correct
They do not out-gas as much, but they still do for as long as they have
binders (glue to hold the friction material together).
Even ceramic...unless pure/solid ceramic racing pads...
But full metallic (sintered) has no binders, so no out-gasing of binders
