Yesterday, Lori went to the store and purchased a 1.5 terabyte external hard drive for her computer. It cost her $110 after rebate.
While this might not seem like such a big deal for those who are younger or more "techy" than me, I find it absolutely amazing.
I remember well the days when it was a big deal to measure memory in megabytes. And I'm only recently gotten used to the fact that we now regularly measure memory in gigabytes.
Now you can pick up a drive with one-and-a-half trillion bytes of memory for just over a hundred bucks.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but this just blows me away.
I completely understand. I bought a half terabyte a couple of months ago. I love the drive, but with my movies, tv shows and music...I'm down to only 180GB left. I'm thinking about going and getting a 1.5 terabyte (especially at those prices)
ReplyDeleteI remember my first computer - a monster made by now defunct Computer Rennessaince which was next to the now defunct Bennigans at 1960 and Stuebner Airline.
ReplyDeleteIt had a 3 gig hard drive and I thought that was so awesome as I waited for my dial up porn pics to load for 30 minutes. If I stayed up all night I could download like 10 with my 32 meg RAM.
Now I have a desktop and a laptop totalling 700 gigs and I keep running out of space.
I actually have several internal HD's sitting around but since everything switched to SATA that kind of f'd me up. And I refuse to pay $50 at Best Buy for a hunk of metal that makes it external. You used to be able to buy those things for $20.