Re: building on your own a large data storage ...

Kevin Snodgrass:
Bad for the bottom line and all.
I would disagree, but I see it is just my opinion. Among many other
points, why is it you pay them a dollar amount they can do whatever
they want with and you are not supposed to do whatever you want with a
freaking hard drive? Why is it that people have class action suits
against tabaco companies and health care providers, but they leave
their data at the expense of "confidentiality agreements" and
"contracts"
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and here I am not talking about the "laws" but about what I think is
right or not.
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Also when you say "bad for the bottom line and all" I think you are
grossly overconfident about the "all" part. We, (most) people can be
so easily manipulated!!!
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Let me just give you a technical example. There are plenty of DBMS
out there which are open source, as performant as pricey ... however
people pay good money to MS and other companies ...
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Bill Todd wrote:
Unless you can come up with convincing support for your drivel about
varying amounts of energy required to spin a cylinder depending upon the
static orientation of its axis of rotation with respect to the gravity
field, I suspect most people with any understanding whatsoever of the
subject will conclude that I *am* right.

Don't chase this one away. I'm really interested in the new torque
definition and formula.
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Kevin, give me some time to get back to you on that one. I thought
Bill was just giving me sh!t. I was amazed that he was questioning
that about gravity/the difference in the torque of a spinning cYlinder
depending on the axis. From a mechanical point of view there
definitely is a difference and to me it is like second nature. Now, I
am talking from a mechanical point of view and this is just an
illustration and NOT even a representative case but just try to spin a
bikes wheel horizontally and vertically and you will notice the
difference
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gaging/measuring the amount of power a drive consumes in both
positions will ultimately say the truth
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On the earth magnetism thing I think the author of SMART keeps data
from many people who have run SMART of their drives, probably
correlating the IP/geo lat long from where they uploaded the data
could give some insight into that. Solid state magnetic phenomena are
very "fishy" I remember as a graduate student that I was part of an
investigation of substances which were not supposed to be
ferromagnetic based on their paired structured (spin's effect should
cancel/balance out), but they actually were ...
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Manufacturers have this data but they are reluctant to share it
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when I talked about drives' cache I didn't talk properly. yeah, of
course drives cache is way to little for me to consider it a big
factor in the drive's use, but the amount of RAM these applications
have and the RAM that databases use internally and the usage patters
of these apps could make a huge difference
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lbrtchx

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