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That is a pretty awesome hack, but I wonder why they didn't just use hard drives and ship it instead of wasting months. Cost / benefit seems off there.
by miles_matthias 14y ago
That is a pretty awesome hack, but I wonder why they didn't just use hard drives and ship it instead of wasting months. Cost / benefit seems off there.
- jdotjdot 14y agoI'm not sure this is a hack as much as abusing a supplier providing a service.I'd like to believe hacks are pie-enlarging rather than zero-sum.
- joshmlewis 14y agoAs mentioned above around that time cost of data on hard drives was $20/gb so that would come out to around $240k at the time. It's crazy how things have changed and we can buy 16gb flash drives now for $5-10. I remember when the first flash drives came out and it was like 128mb for $20.
- Evbn 14y agoMore like 4MB for $20. I have some in my desk.