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Eddie, bạn nói cho anh ta !

Sorry, my last post got posted before I finished it.

...at 1980 prices a 4TB drive would cost $4.3 Billion dollars. We also paid $35 for 8K memory chips.

I do not and would not trust the cloud. I consulted at a company that provided MS office via the internet. It was very slow and often just not there. The employees had diskless workstations and had 1-2 hurs a day downtime.. I was king as I could produce stuff, spread sheet analysis and my invoices, on my notebook and my printer much faster.

Today, my solution is a desktop hooked to a 10 port USB 3.0 hub with 6 external HDs totaling 17TB and 2.5TB internal storage.

Clouds are just vapor.

Another consideration is file compression. I have been taking digital images for nearly 20 years. When hard drives cost a lot more than they do today, I did two things: 1) I backed up my photos to CDs, 2) I uploaded photos to three or four different services.

The life of good quality CD discs, reliably, is about five years. About half were useless after five years.

Images uploaded were compressed and quality suffered. So the money I spent for more megapixels and better camera was wasted.

Now I can buy a 4TB external hard disk for about $200. I have about 120,000 images.

In 1980 I was the controller of the first desktop computer manufacturer to ship models with 'Winchester' hard drives. We paid $5,400 for each 5MB drive. At 1980 prices a 4TB drive would cost

I have a friend who worked on mushroom taxonomy at the Kunming Botanic Garden. As I do like mushrooms, I asked her about buying and cooking the mushrooms I saw in the market. She was not forthcoming at all. Finally, this expert at identifying and classifying mushrooms, said there are two rules to LIVE by:

!. Don't eat wild mushrooms unless you know them well,

2. If you make a mistake, you are dead.