lumpenprol Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Do you think parents will bequeath a "family hard drive" to their children in the future, much as they do other heirlooms today? The thing that made me think about this is the massive amount of texture and object reference I've amassed during my career in 3D. In total it probably amounts to months of photograph taking and culling through the internet. Would hate to see it go to waste... Not to mention Yegg's gif collection... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 WILLIUAM GIBSIN CALLED HE WANTS TYO OPTION THIS THREAD FOR HIS NEXY NOVEL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uelogy Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 the massive amount of texture and object reference I've amassed during my career in 3D. In total it probably amounts to months of photograph taking and culling through the internet. Would hate to see it go to waste... ahh drive-failure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Betty Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Hard drive? You're funny grandpa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JohnTqs Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 everyone should marry interracial and have kids. eventually everyone will be the same race and there will be no more racism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Betty Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 everyone should marry interracial and have kids. eventually everyone will be the same race and there will be no more racism ^ Prefers on-line storage systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 The thing that made me think about this is the massive amount of texture and object reference I've amassed during my career in 3D. In total it probably amounts to months of photograph taking and culling through the internet. Would hate to see it go to waste... Storied memories... Nobody really cares about them in the universe but yourself ! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 5, 2009 Author Share Posted May 5, 2009 well if you make music, i'd guess it'd be the same as passing along a library of samples you painstakingly collected over the years...it would be useful to another musician, no doubt... thinking along those lines, I wonder if when Aphex dies his hard drives will be preserved as notebooks or sheet music were preserved in past eras... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I'd been keen on this idea if hard drives didn't fail so often. Someone needs to make archival quality hard drives, or at least some kind of way of storing them that prolongs their life. Maybe solid state will improve upon that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deep Fried Everything Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 ^^^ i wouldn't be surprised if something like this existed, even if only at an r&d level at this point due to cost/non-availability of emerging technologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I'd been keen on this idea if hard drives didn't fail so often. Someone needs to make archival quality hard drives, or at least some kind of way of storing them that prolongs their life. Maybe solid state will improve upon that. I don't know of any consumer level archival quality devices, but I know there are consumer archival services. I also know that there are a ton of methods used for preservation in the business and commercial sector of computer storage. A combination of Using RAID arrays and regular tape backups. I think redundancy is still the most accepted method of preservation and protection of digital data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest A/D Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 we already have them in my family . . 20 and 40 meg hard drives from back in the day, containing such gems as arctic adventure, commander keen 1 and my grade school projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share Posted May 6, 2009 It's interesting to think that a whole industry of semi-speculative biography of famous figures may die out if we have access to everything a person ever saved to disk. It's not like someone would write a thick book on the question of Abe Lincoln's purported homosexuality if they could open up his hard drive and find "Naughty Woodsmen Vol. 23." On the other hand, this may open up a cottage industry in raiding famous people's hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bitroast Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 thinking along those lines, I wonder if when Aphex dies his hard drives will be preserved as notebooks or sheet music were preserved in past eras... Richard_D_James_-_Complete_Hard_Drive.torrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 the massive amount of texture and object reference I've amassed during my career in 3D. In total it probably amounts to months of photograph taking and culling through the internet. Would hate to see it go to waste... ahh drive-failure I have nightmares about losing all of my precious data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneaksta303 Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 I have nightmares about losing all of my precious data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 THE SWORD OF A THOUSAND TRUTHS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 the massive amount of texture and object reference I've amassed during my career in 3D. In total it probably amounts to months of photograph taking and culling through the internet. Would hate to see it go to waste... ahh drive-failure I have nightmares about losing all of my precious data. don't worry, it's all there on 4-chan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 ^^^ i wouldn't be surprised if something like this existed, even if only at an r&d level at this point due to cost/non-availability of emerging technologies. the new generation of magneto-optical discs would be up to the job certainly not SSD's, which is where everyone else is going now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 ^^^ i wouldn't be surprised if something like this existed, even if only at an r&d level at this point due to cost/non-availability of emerging technologies. the new generation of magneto-optical discs would be up to the job certainly not SSD's, which is where everyone else is going now too little storage capacity in magneto-optical discs.also magneto-optical drives still suffer from the same problem. Errors usually occur on reads. SSD's are the short-term future (like next 10-15) years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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