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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Backblaze AMA summary
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/you-asked-us-anything-on-reddit/I love the story about when they were drive farming at Costco and the dude made a thousand trips to his car to bypass the "limit 2 per customer" limit lol
Amazing that the drives were so much cheaper at Costco that they could afford the human labor to make that make sense.
Even assuming that their employee is only $20/hr (not realistic since they are based in San Jose) it has to take a minimum of twenty minutes per trip to get the drives, even just walking in and out. That's six drives per hour, or an additional $3.33 per drive. And that's pushing it. It's likely that that person costs closer to $30/hr and the turn around time is probably higher than twenty minutes from car door to car door. So easily closer to $5 per drive mark up.
Given their volume, BB must be able to negotiate some killer drive deals directly from the manufacturers.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Backblaze AMA summary
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/you-asked-us-anything-on-reddit/I love the story about when they were drive farming at Costco and the dude made a thousand trips to his car to bypass the "limit 2 per customer" limit lol
Amazing that the drives were so much cheaper at Costco that they could afford the human labor to make that make sense.
Even assuming that their employee is only $20/hr (not realistic since they are based in San Jose) it has to take a minimum of twenty minutes per trip to get the drives, even just walking in and out. That's six drives per hour, or an additional $3.33 per drive. And that's pushing it. It's likely that that person costs closer to $30/hr and the turn around time is probably higher than twenty minutes from car door to car door. So easily closer to $5 per drive mark up.
Given their volume, BB must be able to negotiate some killer drive deals directly from the manufacturers.
That only made sense for them to do for a relatively short period of time after the flooding in Malaysia took down so much of the supply chain.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Backblaze AMA summary
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/you-asked-us-anything-on-reddit/I love the story about when they were drive farming at Costco and the dude made a thousand trips to his car to bypass the "limit 2 per customer" limit lol
Amazing that the drives were so much cheaper at Costco that they could afford the human labor to make that make sense.
Even assuming that their employee is only $20/hr (not realistic since they are based in San Jose) it has to take a minimum of twenty minutes per trip to get the drives, even just walking in and out. That's six drives per hour, or an additional $3.33 per drive. And that's pushing it. It's likely that that person costs closer to $30/hr and the turn around time is probably higher than twenty minutes from car door to car door. So easily closer to $5 per drive mark up.
Given their volume, BB must be able to negotiate some killer drive deals directly from the manufacturers.
That only made sense for them to do for a relatively short period of time after the flooding in Malaysia took down so much of the supply chain.
Oh right, that makes more sense.
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Stressed-out laser diode may deliver 200Gb/s data rates
Stressing a laser diode, and spin polarized electrons yields 200GHz modulation.
The data usage of the modern world is absolutely mind-boggling. We have giant, air-conditioned buildings dedicated to shuffling bits around at high speed. And for what? To ensure that Instagram can tell Facebook to tell its advertisers that you really love rubber duckies. -
Acer’s new ConceptD line is for creatives who want powerful yet quiet PCs
Acer also debuted new Chromebooks and updated its most popular gaming laptops.
Acer added to its already extensive family of PCs with an entirely new line today. Dubbed ConceptD, the new family of laptops, towers, and displays are designed for creatives who often gravitate to gaming PCs for their power but may also be turned off by those devices’ unique designs and loud cooling noise. -
@mlnews Loved the comment about C.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Stressed-out laser diode may deliver 200Gb/s data rates
Stressing a laser diode, and spin polarized electrons yields 200GHz modulation.
The data usage of the modern world is absolutely mind-boggling. We have giant, air-conditioned buildings dedicated to shuffling bits around at high speed. And for what? To ensure that Instagram can tell Facebook to tell its advertisers that you really love rubber duckies.I'm faster when stressed out, too.
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DVD and Blu-ray sales nearly halved over five years, MPAA report says
The MPAA report is chock-full of interesting figures about a changing industry.
In its annual Theatrical Home Entertainment Market Environment report, the Motion Picture Association of America described an immensely sharp drop-off of physical media sales over the past five years. -
So many ConceptD jokes to be made. And they finished them in wood no less!
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Strong corporate desktop sales limit the decline of the PC market
Shortages of Intel processors are claimed to be a big part of the decline.
Gartner and IDC have both published their quarterly reports on the size of the PC market in the first quarter of 2019, and they've both agreed: about 58.5 million systems were shipped. -
@mlnews I wonder if AMD is the big winner overall.
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We've suddenly seen big players putting AMD into key models. Which we buy because we prefer them. So it has been working out for us. It has been hard to get AMD products like that, now it seems almost the obvious choice.
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Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords
Next-gen standard was supposed to make password cracking a thing of the past. It won't.
The next-generation Wi-Fi Protected Access protocol released 15 months ago was once hailed by key architects as resistant to most types of password-theft attacks that threatened its predecessors. -
YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change
YouTube TV raises price from $40 to $50 for new and existing customers.
YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive. -
Nerdio Explains Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop Service
The Microsoft partner's CEO talks about the technology, cost factors and requirements for using Microsoft's new virtual desktop infrastructure service
Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), supporting Windows 7 and Windows 10, is currently at the preview stage, with "general availability" expected in the second half of this year. -
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change
YouTube TV raises price from $40 to $50 for new and existing customers.
YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive.A move away from what people who want to cut the cord (or already have) want. I don't want predetermined bundles that some random execs constructed. I want a la carte, with the ability to get a discount when creating my own bundles. Sort of like tiered volume licensing; 10 is 3% off, 20 is 7% off, etc.
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change
YouTube TV raises price from $40 to $50 for new and existing customers.
YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive.A move away from what people who want to cut the cord (or already have) want. I don't want predetermined bundles that some random execs constructed. I want a la carte, with the ability to get a discount when creating my own bundles. Sort of like tiered volume licensing; 10 is 3% off, 20 is 7% off, etc.
My thoughts exactly. Adding the "cord back in."
Thankfully you can "opt out" of the whole thing
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change
YouTube TV raises price from $40 to $50 for new and existing customers.
YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive.A move away from what people who want to cut the cord (or already have) want. I don't want predetermined bundles that some random execs constructed. I want a la carte, with the ability to get a discount when creating my own bundles. Sort of like tiered volume licensing; 10 is 3% off, 20 is 7% off, etc.
My thoughts exactly. Adding the "cord back in."
Thankfully you can "opt out" of the whole thing
True. It just sucks for the people that are already users.
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change
YouTube TV raises price from $40 to $50 for new and existing customers.
YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive.A move away from what people who want to cut the cord (or already have) want. I don't want predetermined bundles that some random execs constructed. I want a la carte, with the ability to get a discount when creating my own bundles. Sort of like tiered volume licensing; 10 is 3% off, 20 is 7% off, etc.
My thoughts exactly. Adding the "cord back in."
Thankfully you can "opt out" of the whole thing
True. It just sucks for the people that are already users.
I have no problem canceling my subscription.
