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[metame]

Thanks to the recent purchase of a 320Gb drive for under a hundred euros we now have about half a terabyte of storage available to us.

Back in '93 when my parents got me my first PC (a second hand 386) this storage would have cost half a million dollars or 3 times the cost of the parental home

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[al_fruitbat]

When I had my Amiga (spanish for 'girlfriend') I paid £300 for a 52Mb external HD. Last month I paid £93 for a 500Gb internal SATA HD. [shrug]

[wimble]

My linux server's got
1) a 120 Gig internal drive (err, probably IDE, might be SATA)
2) an external 320 Gig USB drive
3) an external 500 Gig USB drive.

Frankly, it's just ridiculous. I've just replaced my old firewall machine with a brank spanking... old machine (but not as old). It's got a 40 Gig drive because I haven't got any smaller.

My alarm clock's got an 80 Gig drive. Which does make me a 1 Terrabyte household! (And that's before I count the TiVo, or the two Windows PCs which aren't currently turned on. Or my laptop.)