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"Remember when 1GB was a lot of disk space?"

Ive just filled a 300GB HDD and already have a 200GB drive that is full. Over 500GB feels like nothing these days. I can easily free up some space by burning some files to a DVD in a matter of minutes. It takes me back to the days of my first computer which had a 1GB HDD and I thought Id never be able to fill it. How foolish was I?

Now if they could create affordable large capacity solid state media surely that would be far better than old hard disc technology? Less prone to wear and tear, knocks and so much faster.

Saw that Acer have created a sub £100 PC with a 2 Gig solid state drive in place of a hard drive. Hardly a vast amount of space, even for Linux software.

I remember getting a 10MB HD for my Commodore Amiga 500 - that was huge! Now I have my e-mail, browser and other sundry items on a 1GB flash drive with 300GB of HD space at home mostly used. :D

3.9 TB for 3 micrometer separation on a 12 cm disc.

my first drive was an 80meg frive for the amiga.
nowadays some of my 3d scenes will contain around 40 megs of information, quite amazing really.

"512k memory should be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates

here`s to when games came on 2 floppy discs!!
....well, except "Beneath a Steel Sky"

Chaos wrote:
> Haven't they deveolped the Holographic disc?
>
> Supposed to have 1 or 2TB space on that... Ah for the days of
> the 1.44MB floppy =D

They probably have and they're probably the size of laserdiscs right now. :D

Geffdof wrote:
> Ive just filled a 300GB HDD and already have a 200GB drive that
> is full. Over 500GB feels like nothing these days. I can easily
> free up some space by burning some files to a DVD in a matter of
> minutes. It takes me back to the days of my first computer which
> had a 1GB HDD and I thought Id never be able to fill it. How
> foolish was I?

What? How can you have filled up such an enormous amount of space? hopefully Not with illegally downloaded vids, games, porno, music.

Still, we've made massive leaps and bounds since those days when 1gb of HDD was loads. Its pretty much doubled or tripled over the last few years. Just look at flash drives.

Haven't they deveolped the Holographic disc?

Supposed to have 1 or 2TB space on that... Ah for the days of the 1.44MB floppy =D

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> Do you have it lossless because you have the space or do you
> have the space because you like to store it lossless? If that
> made sense.
> Just wondering.

I have the space because I like to store it lossless. I originally ripped all my CDs at 192kbps but wasn't entirely happy with the quality - it was good but my setup is very transparent and so, after a major hard disk crash, I splashed out on some storage.

Plus, it takes slightly less CPU power to play lossless files than it does to decode MP3 or AAC and my iMac is an ageing 1.25GHz so every ounce of power counts, especially seeing as it's usually uploading photos and/or encoding a DVD at the same time ...

You guys must have a lot of porn. I've got a 40GB HDD and it's only half-full as i try and keep it down.

Thing is, technology should be able to make your house depend on a central hub and then 1TB won't be a lot. Instead of those 100+ DVDs on the shelf, all your films will be instantly available on your hard drive. Music and photos will be the same and even bookmarks, downloads and any other content could be shared between PCs, TV and consoles.

You'd keep the hard drive somewhere like under the stairs and wirelessly link it to the rest of the house.