back in 92 I think it was my dad bought a 300 some meg HDD for our 386... he was laughed at about the size of drive cause he'd NEVER use it...
I was super psyched at my 40gig in 2k...
i've got 3tb in my desktop right now... and i'm running out...
Heh, I scored this thing a few weeks ago. Works perfectly! I got a lot of accessories with it that aren't pictured here.
(^^ That game is seriously messed up BTW! You're a chef, and you have to assemble burgers by... stomping on the components... while avoiding a... giant perambulatory egg... and a weiner... there's really no way to describe this. It had to have been made on drugs.)
After I got the above setup, well, this happened. How did it happen?!
I also found 2 more in my storage room, and three in my parents' barn too. Umm...
The cost of memory is what frustrates me at work when we get "low disc space" network messages. Inexcusable in my opinion...
I still remember getting Mac magazines back in the late 80's and seeing an ad for a 1g optical drive for $9995.
Ah yes, optical drives, also known as WORM drives. Write once read many. Expensive for the drive, expensive for the disks, very slow, but still faster and more reliable than tape backup.
This, of course, was before CD burners. Or even CD-ROMs. Which were faster, even at 1x.
We used to do tape backups at work right up until last year, when the ancient server died, and the new one had USB ports, so we invested in a small handful of thumb drives, which get rotational use and stored off-site.
It had been many years since we'd bought new computer equipment. We had one computer in the back, one in the office. When the computer in the office died, boss buys a new one. And another one. And two for us in the back. And a laptop. I think he said something to the effect of "they're so cheap nowadays, it doesn't make sense not to."
But I still don't have a whiteboard on the back wall where long-term projects go... 
I have 2.5TB of storage space, redundant storage space as in if one drive fails all of my storage is safe still. It's accessible worldwide from my Drobo (a NAS)
I guess I really don't get it. My desktop, which is about 3.5 years old, came with a 500GB drive. I've got about 72GB in use - the rest is empty.
I recently replaced the 320GB spinny drive in my 2008-spec, unibody MacBook with a 128GB SSD. I have about 28GB in use.
I think terabyte drive are the McMansions of the computer world. All that space simply encourages people to obtain more things than they have any use for. A terabyte of music would provide listening for 1.5 years, if you listen 24/7. You could watch movies 24/7 for two weeks. Who needs it?
It's like guitars and old cars, you can never have enough.
One thing about the limited amount of memory that was available in the old days is it forced programmers to be economical and elegant in their programming - there was no room for wasted lines of code.
EvanR wrote: I guess I really don't get it. My desktop, which is about 3.5 years old, came with a 500GB drive. I've got about 72GB in use - the rest is empty. I recently replaced the 320GB spinny drive in my 2008-spec, unibody MacBook with a 128GB SSD. I have about 28GB in use. I think terabyte drive are the McMansions of the computer world. All that space simply encourages people to obtain more things than they have any use for. A terabyte of music would provide listening for 1.5 years, if you listen 24/7. You could watch movies 24/7 for two weeks. Who needs it?
when a single picture in raw is 20-25mb... add a few more for the JPG version if you shoot both at the same time it eats up drive space... add that you really want to have your photos a separate drive and off sight somewhere for safety it really eats into your drive space... things get even worse when you are working with video... shooting 1080hd is pretty massive... I shot a weekly annoucment set that was just a few min long... early on I'd end up with 8+ gb of stuff before shooting was done... I only held onto stuff for a few weeks before it got tossed because of it's huge size... but imagine if you where making even a short film and shooting in HD... you'll need several TB drives just to hold the raw shooting
EvanR wrote: I think terabyte drive are the McMansions of the computer world. All that space simply encourages people to obtain more things than they have any use for. A terabyte of music would provide listening for 1.5 years, if you listen 24/7. You could watch movies 24/7 for two weeks. Who needs it?
My computer's fast enough that I can watch HD video and movies without compression. My monitor's big enough that I can tell the difference between 720 and 480. So, I have a lot of 720 HD video.
Plus, every rallycross I hit gets me a few gigs of raw video that needs to be distilled down to one or two 6-10 minute YouTube clips. I save all the raws, because the space is there.
I started using this computer earlier this year. I threw a $30 new-takeout 250meg drive in there strictly for data. (I wanted a 1TB but apparently a huge flood in Singapore wrecked inventory and suddenly $59 drives were $150) It's already 60% full.
How many DVDs do you own? Each DVD is potentially 4 gigs. The tendency anymore is to pack them full of features to use up all available space, assuming that it didn't need two or three DVDs to fill it all.
Looking at my DVD rack, I stopped counting at 50. 2 terabytes of data on my shelf, at least.
Knurled wrote: How many DVDs do you own?
The precise count is zero. Same with music CDs.
I sometimes forget how consumed with media people are these days. My bad.
As you were.
stuart in mn wrote: One thing about the limited amount of memory that was available in the old days is it forced programmers to be economical and elegant in their programming - there was no room for wasted lines of code.
This. Plus a billion. Programmers should be forced to fit the entire software program on a single CD-Rom.
EvanR wrote: I guess I really don't get it. My desktop, which is about 3.5 years old, came with a 500GB drive. I've got about 72GB in use - the rest is empty.
Looks like you need to download more porn.
Who downloads porn anymore? It's all streaming on the web.
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