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If we take any portable media as the comparison, the largest I know of is 50GB for a blueray disk, that’s still something you can ‘almost’ load into 32gb of memory (if your OS and Teams app didn’t take 16gb of course).
I think thumb drives get up to several TB this days
I don’t think those are actually several TB. They’re fakes that are advertised as having several TB.
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Probably quieter than the DL360 I bought a few months ago and put on eBay after two hours :)
Oh, is that the one with like 10 1" fans spinning at 8,000 RPM, so that it sounds like a Harrier jet coming in for a landing?
Usually it's way, way more: https://store.supermicro.com/server-accessories/fans.html?fa...
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Yup, even old computers that booted off floppy drives like the Atari ST and Amiga would often just load the entire data and program into memory, since their memory size was usually larger than the floppy disk. Same for the games, a lot of the loading at the beginning was to do with simply loading the entire disk into memory... basically system memory size vs block device size was the opposite way around of today... t…
Is this true? This feels hard to imagine that computers would load the entire diskette into memory. Apparently the Atari ST had up to 4MB of RAM. I can imagine many programs doing this though.
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I think thumb drives get up to several TB this days
That sounded a bit crazy to me, so I checked. I don’t think those are actually several TB. They’re fakes that are advertised as having several TB.
Portable flash drives using M.2 drives internally could reasonably be up to 8TB, but being at the high end they're expensive.
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Yup, even old computers that booted off floppy drives like the Atari ST and Amiga would often just load the entire data and program into memory, since their memory size was usually larger than the floppy disk. Same for the games, a lot of the loading at the beginning was to do with simply loading the entire disk into memory... basically system memory size vs block device size was the opposite way around of today... t…
Is this true? This feels hard to imagine that computers would load the entire diskette into memory. Apparently the Atari ST had up to 4MB of RAM. I can imagine many programs doing this though.
As another example You could easily make RAM disks via a desktop menu, to facilitate the common setup of a single built in floppy drive. So you could copy files off into RAM via the GEM desktop GUI (literally drag and drop) and then put another disk in etc.
Random aside: I accidentally found that this machine would transmit audio over FM radio for a short but very useful range automatically.. blew my mind as a kid. I could never find anything official about this online later so not sure if it was an intentional design, poor EM design of the audio chip, or a hack of my particular 2nd hand franken-tari - either way it was super useful to have wireless audio in the 90s.
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Seems like the bitrot is kicking in already. The main JPEG appears to have bitflip errors: http://totallynormalwebsite.ddns.net/megafloppy.jpg This is what I get, when I download the full image and convert to PNG: https://i.imgur.com/JF4wtMg.png During the conversion (with imagemagick), I get these errors: convert: Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment `megafloppy.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/4…
I managed to grab a (hopefully) uncorrupted version somehow. I'm putting it somewhere other than imgur so they don't recompress the image. MD5 d30fcc384a8e2de4fab3056bde42b00b. [EDIT: Removed dead link, use archive.org instead] > I'd be curious to know what failure mode(s) conjured the 0xf6's into existence. Today's fun fact: The MS-DOS `format` command fills the disk with 0xf6, not 0x00. Though this is linux running…
Another fun fact: That character is ö under Windows-1252, the codepage in use by Windows since about Windows 2.0, and some late MS-DOS.
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Yep, that's called a "negative dentry".
But if a negative dentry does not yet exist, and a filename is requested for the first time, does it read from the fs? The DDoS scenario would be doing GET requests of random nonexistent filenames. You could change the name at every step so that the check for a negative dentry is never a cache hit.
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I think thumb drives get up to several TB this days
That sounded a bit crazy to me, so I checked. I don’t think those are actually several TB. They’re fakes that are advertised as having several TB.