From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 07 Apr 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> ]]]I'm doing some work for a client at the moment who is in the US,   
   >> ]]]and is considering backing up their data to our D/C in Australia.   
   >> ]]]  Now *that's*  geographic redundancy...   
      
   Actually, that series came from a discussion in another newsgroup, and   
   that person works in a data center in Melbourne.   
      
   >It also may have something to do with availability and   
   >reliability of electrical power.  If power is there, thanks to a   
   >political decision to provide it to the far distant boonies (or   
   >if hydropower makes it cheap), it can make sense to use it there.   
      
   There's more to it than that - one of my off-site backup locations is   
   three miles from the San Andreas earthquake fault just South of San   
   Francisco. The other is about 90 miles NE of New York City in rural   
   Connecticut.  The latter site is inaccessible more often than the   
   former, because winter ice storms bring down the utility lines (power,   
   phone and cable).  Past 'quakes have frightened the Californians, but   
   no physical damage or power outages.   Oh, and 'quakes are not unknown   
   in Connecticut (or New York, or Oklahoma, or Virginia, or ...)  ;-)   
      
   >Plus, there are security implications for physical access,   
   >workforce screening, and such that may be of interest.   
      
   Mentioned - backups are always encrypted.   
      
   >I still am holding off on the laptop, but it looks like I may be   
   >able to get an hp with an AMD AM8 cpu and a 17.3-inch screen for   
   >under $1,000 or vicinity.   
      
   Holy Toledo - HOW MUCH?   Items seen in various newspaper ads noted in   
   my files (from Frys Electronics, Best Buy and OfficeMax here in PNX):   
      
   HP ? 17.3" AMD A4 4 GB 500 GB $480   
   HP ? 17.3" AMD A8 Vision 6 GB 750 GB Bluetooth $550   
   HP ? 17.3" i7 8 GB 1 TB Bluetooth $800   
   Sony ? 17.3" i7 8 GB 750 GB $898   
   ASUS ? 17.3" i7 8 GB 2 TB, BluRay, Bluetooth "GT635 2 GB" $1248   
   Toshiba Satellite ? 17.3" AMD A6 6 G 640 GB $400   
   Toshiba ? 17.3" i7 8 GB 750 GB $800   
   Toshiba ? 17.3" i3 4 GB 640 GB $430   
      
   The question mark means model number wasn't specified. "i3" or "i7"   
   are Intel CPUs. Next figure is RAM, next figure if hard disk.  All   
   are a 17.3 inch screen.   
      
   >I'm hoping it will have space for a second hard drive (one hp laptop   
   >I looked at did)   
      
   I'm slightly curious why you feel that desirable (as opposed to just   
   a larger single drive).   
      
   >and thinking about power-supply implications of   
   >that plus bunches of DDR3.   
      
   There is that - but most places where my wife or I use our laptops,   
   there is a place to mooch power.  Perhaps a solid state drive?  I do   
   see systems advertised with something on the order of a 500-640 GB   
   standard drive _and_ a SSD, but these tend to be the smaller screen   
   devices   
      
   HP UltraBook 14" i5 6 GB 500 GB 32 GB SSD  $648   
   Sony UltraBook 14" i5 6 GB 500 GB 32 GB SSD $748   
   Sony Touchscreen Ultrabook 14" i7 6 GB 500 GB 24 GB SSD  $948   
      
   I've no experience with them, but SATA interfaced SSDs are available   
      
   PNY 480 GB SSD SATA 2.5" $469   
   Corsair 240 GB SSD $185   
   Corsair 128 GB SSD $109   
   PNY 120 GB SSD SATA 2.5" $94   
   Samsung 840 series 120 GB SSD $99   
      
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