10.04.07
Do you like your machine planked, like your salmon?
A bunch of items I ordered arrived today - hard disks to relieve my chronic space shortage, and USB 2.0 enclosures to put them in. I built everything at once and commenced transferring data. It didn’t take long before I remembered Jim Gray’s early warnings that as we moved to terabyte disks programmers would need to think of disks as sequential devices - that is, like tapes. (I read this in a presentation of his a long time ago, but right now I can only find later references, like in this interview, and in this paper.) Consolidating 500Gb of files from multiple smaller hard drives onto one larger drive takes a long time.
But the real point of this post is this: Can you help me figure out if I’m using one of my new USB 2.0 hard disk enclosures correctly? I thought installing the disk into the thing was obvious—but I checked the instructions anyway, which is my usual habit. The instructions seemed clear: place the hard disk in the USB enclosuer, plug in the cables, secure the metal case with four screws—all ok so far. But here is the last paragraph:
Is good with machine plank according to the right method conjunction the hard dish, lock the right and HDD, can immediately trust the usage.
Say what? A finer example of Engrish I have never seen. Thank you CP Technologies for your CP-U2S-3G Platinum Series USB 2.0 to SATA hard disk case instructions!