UbuTab: An Ubuntu Tablet With A Terabyte Hard Drive

[speculatrix]

it didn't reach its funding goal of $36k (so a long way from stretch goal of $40k), but got a decent amount of support - $28k

[molecule-eye]

$36000 for a hardware project? One-person team? No hardware experience? Flexible funding? Indiegogo (they're already less strict than kickstarter)?

I say - no way. This will fail, assuming it's not a straight-up scam.

It can't be anything other than a scam. Too bad people have lost already over $11,000 to it.

[mangecoeur]

Red flags raised!

$36000 for a hardware project? One-person team? No hardware experience? Flexible funding? Indiegogo (they're already less strict than kickstarter)?

I say - no way. This will fail, assuming it's not a straight-up scam.

[Nille]

This older SoC (probably Allwinner or Mediatek) has no SATA interface, neither USB3 interface. SSD would be kinda pointless on slow USB2 interface.

And you think a 1TB HDD is better on a USB2 interface? I choose a SSD not for the speed i choose it for the parallel access and access times.

[CtrlAltShift]

I wish them luck. The only thing is I think they are cutting the project short but the lacking SoC, small camera resolution and no 4G/LTE. There's also no need for the harddrive. You simply need a 128GB or 256GB SDD and the 4G/LTE will get you past any other storage problems with the ability to move stuff to a personal cloud or where ever.

This older SoC (probably Allwinner or Mediatek) has no SATA interface, neither USB3 interface. SSD would be kinda pointless on slow USB2 interface.

[marceel]

It wish them luck. The only thing is I think they are cutting the project short but the lacking SoC, small camera resolution and no 4G/LTE. There's also no need for the harddrive. You simply need a 128GB or 256GB SDD and the 4G/LTE will get you past any other storage problems with the ability to move stuff to a personal cloud or where ever.

Ye when you have 21mbit/s 5GB limit on 16 euro data program then you go back to 128kbit/s. This disk is much cheaper and better.

[e8hffff]

I wish them luck. The only thing is I think they are cutting the project short but the lacking SoC, small camera resolution and no 4G/LTE. There's also no need for the harddrive. You simply need a 128GB or 256GB SDD and the 4G/LTE will get you past any other storage problems with the ability to move stuff to a personal cloud or where ever.

[Luke]

Ipods had hard drives back in 2001, surely portable HDD's can hold up today

Yeah, and forget about the problems with movement and vibrations in hard drives.

Ipods had hard drives in the old days, they were made from just a few standard off the shelf parts from what I heard. Big problem with those wasn't hard drive failures, it was a semi non-replaceable battery. You had to source the replacement battery directly and disassemble the device, Crapple said you were supposed to buy a new iPod instead of a new battery.

I suspect hard drives today would last just fine, I've got one of these 2 1/2" drives in a netbook that spends a lot of time in a backpack riding on the back of a bike, and it shows no errors or issues. The one drive of this type I had die was killed by being knocked from a desk onto the iron base of a mike stand while running and while clad only in an aluminum external HDD mount with no rubber armor. Even that didn't kill it all the way dead, it just made multiple bad spots that could be bypassed by partitioning around them. I've still got about 40GB of usable space on that drive in the same carrier, though I would only use it for emergency overflow storage of files to be moved somewhere and replaceable from the main machine if anything happened.

[andyprough]

Yeah, and forget about the problems with movement and vibrations in hard drives.

We've had spinning hard drives in all kinds of mobile devices for decades now - laptops, tablet PCs, iPods, netbooks, even some Palm Pilots. Archos has built Android tablets with spinning hard drives since 2010.

[madjr]

Yeah, and forget about the problems with movement and vibrations in hard drives.

Seems it also has 16gb flash and they are using slimmer drives, not normal laptop ones, so they may be made to fair even more than the vibration laptops withstand.

The flash is probably for the OS , core apps and most of the daily processes. And don't want to use the HDD for some reason , there is also a micro SD slot

For the price the specs look more than decent, beats Jolla tablet in a number of areas imo