I’m not usually one for New Year’s resolutions. It’s always seemed pretty easy to break promises to myself at any time of the year. But I must admit that the beginning of the year is a good time to consider the future. So, here’s something I’ll be implementing soon, and with hope it might be of use to you.
Essentially, I plan to find time to fend off an old adversary: disk space (or, rather, lack of disk space). Yes, it’s great that laptops are finally powerful enough to replace 98 percent of what I need a desktop for, but I sure miss the ability to use 3.5” drives—1TB runs about $300 or more nowadays. We laptop users are constrained by space to 2.5” drives, and so we’re sort of left wishing for a quarter of a terabyte. Even that turns out to be a tall order because, first, 2.5” drives obviously have smaller platters and therefore less surface area upon which to store data, and second, 2.5” drives have a lower profile, which allows space for only two platters, whereas 3.5” drives sport enough space for four platters. (One 2.5”drive vendor has tried squeezing three platters into the case, but that seems a trifle optimistic for my taste.) . . .
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rameeti1 January 16, 2008 (Article Rating: