{"id":2050,"date":"2004-07-09T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2004-07-09T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T06:30:00","slug":"limits-to-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/07\/09\/02\/30\/limits-to-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Limits to Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, in preparation for the big move, I bought 4 250GB drives, two of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compgeeks.com\/details.asp?invtid=MAP-302F-01\">external firewire dual cases<\/a>, did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;q=EnableDynamicConversionFor1394\">EnableDynamicConversionFor1394<\/a> trick, and rigged up a ~1TB hard drive near-line backup.<\/p>\n<p>The sad thing is that I notice that though hard drive capacities have increased tremendously, this has not been tracked by a similar increase in read\/write speeds. And of course, the old PCI\/Firewire connection limits the throughput.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, it took just under 4 days to do a complete backup of around 720GB of data, and another 36 hours to do a byte-for-byte verify. That&#8217;s just too damn slow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, in preparation for the big move, I bought 4 250GB drives, two of these external firewire dual cases, did the EnableDynamicConversionFor1394 trick, and rigged up a ~1TB hard drive near-line backup. The sad&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}