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Just gonna drop a note here. The Presonus Eris E8 is a ******* amazing powered speaker. Got a pair of 'em set up on the test bench, which is in an ~8,000 ft^2 open storage area on the 2nd floor of the building above the newsroom. Turns out to be an awesome listening space.
I seriously spent about an hour doing absolutely nothing but sitting there listening to 70s / 80s power-ballads on Friday.
Definitely gonna buy a pair of these for the kitchen after the move.
The port makes me wonder if that is a 1/4 wave tranny line configuration. Nothing I have ever heard beats a properly designed 1/4 wave TL.
No clue. I don't pretend to have the slightest idea about acoustical physics, I just know which brands to buy and how to hook 'em up. For $450 a pair, the Aries E8 is one of the best-sounding nearfield monitors I've ever used.
(Yes, I dialed in a little bump ~100hz while listening to Jon Cleary And The Absolute Monster Gentlemen's Got to be more careful. Shaking the god damned floor with that one.)
This hard drive is fairly old. I bought it around 2010 or so, when the drive in my Vaio started making scary noises. Can't remember the exact date, but I'm pretty sure I was in a Raddisson hotel at the time. It was down in SoHo, and I remember that while the room itself was almost indescribably minuscule, there was a very groovy roof deck with a big firepit and a small bar. I cannot for the life of me recall a visual image of the bathroom, which is unusual. I do remember quite well a falaffel joint just down the block that I frequented. Pricey, but delicious.
Still kinda blows my mind how tiny this thing is. And, somehow, mankind never progressed beyond this level of smallness in mainstream hard disk technology. This was it. This was the End of Innovation.
This hard drive is fairly old. I bought it around 2010 or so, when the drive in my Vaio started making scary noises. Can't remember the exact date, but I'm pretty sure I was in a Raddisson hotel at the time. It was down in SoHo, and I remember that while the room itself was almost indescribably minuscule, there was a very groovy roof deck with a big firepit and a small bar. I cannot for the life of me recall a visual image of the bathroom, which is unusual. I do remember quite well a falaffel joint just down the block that I frequented. Pricey, but delicious.
Still kinda blows my mind how tiny this thing is. And, somehow, mankind never progressed beyond this level of smallness in mainstream hard disk technology. This was it. This was the End of Innovation.
Joe, where did you find those at that price? A quick google is turning up $500/pr.
I buy them from Markertek, but a quick Amazon search shows a few vendors selling 'em at the same price.
Make no mistake- these are not concert-level speakers. They would not be a good choice for DJ work at a nightclub or a wedding reception. These are near-field monitors, intended to bathe a small area in great sound at reasonable levels.
Originally Posted by y8s
is that so. (picture of SSDs)
None of those things are hard disks.
That was my point. I totally get that SSD / Flash Media are objectively superior in every way. Faster, cheaper, more reliable, smaller, lower power consumption, etc. It's just that there was a certain mechanical artistry involved in the design of really small hard drives, not unlike that which goes into the making of a fine Swiss watch. And while a 4G-connected smartwatch will always keep better time, there's just something about the elegantly raw, mechanical nature of a Rolex that makes people buy them.
There's nothing viscerally exiting about a flat piece of sand with some sub-microscopic lines burned into it.
It's a platter drive and its SATA interface rather than whatever goofy ribbon cable your Vaio was using. I also have much smaller hands than you do, so...
Laptop SSD for scale. Do I win?
Edit: Looking at this again, your freakishly large hands really screw up the scale of the drive and these may actually be the same footprint. Mine is SATA though, so still gooder.
That Toshiba you're showing is the same size, both physically in terms of storage capacity, as the one I posted.
That was my point. That was as far as mainstream hard drive technology ever got. They created that family of drives, and then stopped.
Sure, I'm aware of the existence of the IBM / Hitachi 1.3" Microdrive, but that was never a "real" product. They were unreliable, slow, never exceeded 8 GB (and that in 2008, when 800 GB drives were commonplace), and failed to gain commercial acceptance in any consumer product.
It just makes me a little sad. Our generation has witnessed, not the death per se, but the stagnation of so many technologies which once held such great promise.
Bah, small hard drives aren't viscerally exciting.
No pictures, alas, but in the late 80s when I was in high school a friend of mine's parent worked for IBM Research, Almaden, where they had done a lot of the early hard drive R&D. You've seen those coffee tables that people make by taking a big piece of glass and putting some kind of support under it, right? Well, her living room had a couple tables like that, except instead of glass they used hard drive platters. Normal-sized coffee tables too, not doll-sized.
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