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It's pretty neat! But, I think the main appeal of the quartz discs is it's stability and durability not necesseraly it's density. I don't think we can expect a HAMR drive to survive 13.8 billion years ;). Quartz disc will cater for the cold storage market while HAMR is, in my opinion, a normal evolution of our current drives toward higher density drives. That article from Forbes tends to suggest that we should not expect better life time from our future HAMR drives than we do with our current drives.

Now, that's some exciting stuff. If it's as reliable as they say, I wouldn't be surprised to see companies move their archives to these kinds of media in a couple of years! Source

I got a couple of the bitfenix ones. I got nothing to complain about. They work as intended and looks ok

I work as a consultant and I just got back from sick leave 2 months ago because of a "burnout". Too much stress, too much anxiety, unbalanced diabete, trying to prove myself and get a decent raise. I was working 10h+ a day, 6-7 days a week, basically 60-80h a week. I did that non-stop for almost 2 years. It was to the point that the only time I was seeing my girlfriend was when she was asleep. I came back home to my girlfriend one evening exhausted, it was like 10PM or close to, my phone rang as I enter my appartment. It was my boss asking me to go somewhere to hookup Internet the following morning at 6 and I needed to be there at 6. It was 1h30 away from home. so I had to leave at 4:30AM. I hung up on him without saying anything, looked up at my girlfriend and I started crying. I knew at that moment that I reached a breaking point. I went to the clinic the following morning, explained my situation to the doctor and she put me immediately on sick leave. I was stopped for 3 months. I felt so guilty for leaving work, people made fun of my situation at the office because, you know, you are "weak" minded. The first month, I literally slept 18h /day. i had to take anti-depressant because the doctor was not sure if I was suffering depression or just burnout. Even after the 3 months I was feeling that I did not completely recover but bills were starting to pill up. since I came back, even if my co-workers are still making fun of me, I'm now doing 40h /week and that's it. I'm feeling much better, my relationship is going well and my health is back. TL;DR: Don't overwork yourself and stay healthy. You got only one life, make good use of it.

Came up with it in Diablo II for my Paladin. It carried over in FFXI for 8 years where my main was *drum roll* Paladin. I'm now retired but I'm keeping that handle for pretty much anything else I play. It looks goofy in FPS but I'm ok with that

An old second hand 486 DX2 that my sister bought when she was in college. That thing was awesome. I remember that when we got it, it had WarCraft and Dune II installed on it. I fell in love with RTS the first time I laid my eyes on Dune II. I found WarCraft two weeks later. It lasted a while, I even remember playing Diablo, StarCraft and Roller Coaster Tycoon on that thing before switching to a PIII 733MHz in high school .