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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 06/24/15 18:32, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote:
> William A. Mahaffey III writes:
>
>> On 06/24/15 10:42, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
>>> BTW, are there really 2TB _2.5"_ drives on the market?
>> Yup, see:
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&Subcategory=380&N=100007605%20600358494&IsNodeId=1&IsPowerSearch=1&OEMMark=0,N,1
> I have one of those Samsung disks myself. Not much in the way of
> performance, but I just use it for backups anyway.


Yeah, but put a few of them in a RAID, nice performance, *and* nice 
storage density ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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