[OT] One terabyte drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:54:25AM -0400, sciguy wrote:
> It boggles the mind that it would take a hundred thousand 10 meg drives to
> have the same storage as a 1TB drive. The day was not too far off when the
> prospect of owning a TB of storage was almost inconceivable. And now,
> they're even falling in price. 100GB drives are now considered small (or at
> least middling), which is still 10,000x the capacity of a 10 MB drive.
> 
> I think if I add up all my drives in the house, I may have just over 1.5
> TB.

I remember dreaming of having one of those 10 or 20MB supra hard drives
for my Amiga.  Way too expensive though.

Now my mythtv box has 2TB at a cost of less than the Amiga was and the
Amiga itself was quite a cheap machine. :)

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