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Gary Wheeler wrote: ... and they'd never have to do this again.
Nah. They buy them an SSD each and in six months, they will be full again. I have a 1TB SSD, a 500GB SSD, and 2 1TB HDDs in my desktop, plus a 16TB NAS, a 4TB NAS, and a 2TB NAS under the desk, a pile of 2TB and 4TB external drives (some of which are stored at a friends house at any given time). And every time I upgrade storage, it gets fuller ... 
Get them a big heavy duty NAS (I can recommend QNAP) and put it under someone else's control. They will fill that too, but at least it stands a chance of being backed up ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Or repurpose a desktop and put TrueNAS on it.
Works for me.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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A "real" NAS uses less power, particularly when it isn't being accessed - mine idles at less than 20W (and wakes immediately on LAN use) and can sleep at less than 1W.
My PC on the other handy is a greedy bugger! 
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Sounds like digital hoarding! How many copies of copies of things do you have going on?
I'll create a back up of something, then that'll get backed up into another folder, then that PC will be upgraded and I'll copy the whole thing into another folder which will get backed up, then onto another disc in case the first blows up. It's the digital equivalent of a garage full of stuff you're too afraid to throw away in case you may one day need it. Yep 2x 4TB drives full of garbage in my PC currently.
16TB is really quite a lot when you think about it..
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: buy an SSD for each and they'd never have to do this again
Their SSD will be full again within a few days.
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11917640 Member wrote: Their SSD will be full again within a few days.
@Gary-Wheeler
Did one of the two tech writers actually write this post?
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Software Zen: delete this;
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I was in a similar situation some years ago; where our company had given a 250GB laptop. Outlook mails with big attachments used to take space, mine was a development machine.
Then someone suggested WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics [^]. Installed this, and got to know exactly where the bulky files reside, mostly in the C:\Users...\AppData subfolders. Used to regularly move-to-external-hard-disk/delete unwanted bulky files, to make space. This was not very time-consuming, and would be done maybe once a week or fortnight.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Our two tech writers
You had me at "two tech writers"!
Most companies do not have even 1 tech writer.
Doesn't your company know that companies don't write manuals any more? 
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When your equipment sells for $1.5M-$2.5M and customers don't like to maintain it properly, you write user and service manuals as CYA.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: When your equipment sells for $1.5M-$2.5M
!!!
I thought I remembered that you worked on/built large expensive equipment. 
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Yup. We build commercial inkjet printing systems that print full color, front and back, at up to 17 feet of paper per second.
In other words, we ain't your mama's DeskJet .
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Gary Wheeler wrote: up to 17 feet of paper per second
Truly amazing! That's got to be cool to watch it print.
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I agree, does your company have videos of said machinery in action?
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I was thinking it was even a bit dangerous. That is 11 miles an hour if I did the math right. Might not kill you but could probably do some damage.
Think paper cuts.
Or maybe a new way to decapitate a zombie.
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It made me think about the A-10 Tank Killer (warthog) which is armed with a GAU-8 Avenger - Wikipedia[^]
Here's the quote of projectiles emitted per minute:
from wikipedia: The Avenger's rate of fire was originally selectable, 2,100 rounds per minute (rpm) in the low setting, or 4,200 rpm in the high setting
2,100 per minute is 35 rounds per second!!
I'm not sure how the next round doesn't hit the previous round in the rear. 
It's a crazy fast.
On the printer, seems like the paper would be gone before the ink had time to hit at those speeds too.
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If you gave it just the right set of images it would be like a movie.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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That's such a funny idea...and it's true! Very innovative thinking. 
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Man! Imagine the paper cut you could get at that speed! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Imagine the paper cut you could get at that speed!
You put that image in my mind...
Guillotines might be less efficient.
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Indeed. It's running joke about lethal paper cuts. The other joke is "baptism" when the machine dumps ink on you.
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Quote: The other joke is "baptism" when the machine dumps ink on you.
That only happens when you are wearing a new suit and / or tie to meet a client ...
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We actual did that to a corporate guy touring one of the labs. Some tubing on a test stand cut loose and sprayed him with yellow ink.
We bought him a new suit  .
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Have heard that in such printer systems, the software is generally the slower component amongst hardware and software; hardware, even though mechanical / electro-mechanical is faster among the two.
Is this true?
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We have dedicated computers and hardware to handle high-speed interactions. Print data for example is sent over fiber optic links from the data source to the printheads.
Our controller application (the part I work on) is a Windows UI application and a group of services, all heavily multithreaded.
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