I'm in need of petabyte-class storage for basic web usability and sovereignty. Have you ever tried recording everything your browser views? It'll fill up a terabyte very quickly. Now, what if you want to go back and see something you browsed before? Your browser history is incomplete due to the way HTML5 works. Mobile browsers routinely delete your history. Twitter loves to refresh and make it i possible to find a tweet you've seen, etc. You want to see that page you saw last week talking about gizmo breakthrough X? Good luck, Google is no help.
Saving everything automatically that you browse, this is extremely powerful. I feel the outrage against Microsoft recall is largely artificial because of how useful this is for users. They don't want us to have access to powerful desktop tools. This makes synthesizing narratives much more difficult and perfect memory is very bad for this.
Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product.
Be warned, there are fraudulent sellers on Amazon that sell used drives from this list as new. For example, I ordered two of these drives https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KPL474H. They were both sold as new and arrived in sealed anti-static bags. First one was DOA and the second one's SMART data showed power-on hours of ~3 years!
I reported to Amazon and wrote a review but they took my review down for calling it fraud.
> Be warned, there are fraudulent sellers on Amazon
If you're one of today's 10,000 learning this for the first time, congratulations.
For everyone else, this is a reminder that you probably shouldn't use Amazon for anything that goes in or on your body, that has properties that change over time and use (this case), that has value high enough to be worth counterfeiting, or that you want to be usable within the first round or two with customer support.
I noticed there are no 18TB drives in use. I've got six WD181KFGX drives which have been running well for over two years. These drives use helium and they have a five year warranty. I wonder if they'll all fail at once...
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I'm in need of petabyte-class storage for basic web usability and sovereignty. Have you ever tried recording everything your browser views? It'll fill up a terabyte very quickly. Now, what if you want to go back and see something you browsed before? Your browser history is incomplete due to the way HTML5 works. Mobile browsers routinely delete your history. Twitter loves to refresh and make it i possible to find a tweet you've seen, etc. You want to see that page you saw last week talking about gizmo breakthrough X? Good luck, Google is no help.
Saving everything automatically that you browse, this is extremely powerful. I feel the outrage against Microsoft recall is largely artificial because of how useful this is for users. They don't want us to have access to powerful desktop tools. This makes synthesizing narratives much more difficult and perfect memory is very bad for this.
Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product.
Numbers should be right-aligned and use a font where the digits are monospaced.
I reported to Amazon and wrote a review but they took my review down for calling it fraud.
If you're one of today's 10,000 learning this for the first time, congratulations.
For everyone else, this is a reminder that you probably shouldn't use Amazon for anything that goes in or on your body, that has properties that change over time and use (this case), that has value high enough to be worth counterfeiting, or that you want to be usable within the first round or two with customer support.