The Terror Byte Drives are Coming!

[bdgbill]

Remember when the word "Gigabyte" felt strange and futuristic to say?

Start practicing "terabyte"

When this puppy dies you will really have something to cry about "I lost my full uncompressed copy of the Library of Congress!"

At $400.00 it costs just slightly more than my first 10 Mb hard drive (which also seemed unnecesarily huge and impossible to fill at the time).

[pcostanza]

I remember when compression was much talked about to save hard drive space. No more! While I have no drives in the Terabyte range, I have picked up a few 250 GB for very sweet deals. Use some in portable cases for backup and transport but with HD soon to be must have, space will start to fill up fast.
My first 10MB drive cost me over $300 but I won't give my age away and say when.

[wtg]

And if a single terrabyte isn't enough for you, Seagate is saying with their new heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology you'll have 300 TB on your desktop in 3 years!

[Torque]

I remember when compression was much talked about to save hard drive space. No more! While I have no drives in the Terabyte range, I have picked up a few 250 GB for very sweet deals. Use some in portable cases for backup and transport but with HD soon to be must have, space will start to fill up fast.
My first 10MB drive cost me over $300 but I won't give my age away and say when.

You'd better take your age outta yer profile then...

I purchased a 12MB "hard card" for $350 ... (IIRC, a hard drive mounted to a card that plugged into an 8-bit ISA slot for the youngins) clackity-clack-clack

My users at work store enough crap on their desktops... this is gonna get insane. This means I'll need to get 4 of these drives for my "desktop disaster recovery server". haha I dunno about all of you, but that's a heck of a lot of info on one spindle... I think redundant arrays need to become more of the norm. I see alot of the laptops are now available with two HDDs for mirroring.

I'm really keepin' a close eye on SSD though... But $600 for 32GB is a little spendy ATM.

[Torque]

Just the capacity gives a lot away.

My first 10MB drive cost $1600 (talk about being an 'early adopter'). Last time I turned it on it still worked, lets see how many of the 'more modern' ones still work after 20 years :o

Well, it should still work, being steam powered and all... :p :p

Did any of you have the luxury of working with the old IBM Ramac? The thing was the size of a dishwasher with platters like 1.5 feet in diameter. I remember helping our IT guy move all the platters from a dead unit into a working one during my summer job while in college. Something like a massive 10GB capacity haha. I think I had a 170MB hdd in my College computer at that time.

[falafelboy]

hmmm...I'm still trying to figure out why we need so much!!! You can only download so much.

[Torque]

I coulda sworn it was in gigs... and this wasn't quite that long ago... I'm not THAT old. LOL The RAMAC i remember seeing was the size of a stand alone dishwasher blue and orange, and the top opened up to load the platters. It had a skinny window on the front like a mini liquor fridge to watch the inner workings.

It looked very close to this one, only it was half as high and where the vents are on the front was a narrow window:
http://vm.uconn.edu/~uccdoc/ramac.jpg

That pic just brought back a memory... the ramac was so damn heavy, I remember it some how popping up a tile in the false floor while we were rolling the dead one to get it closer to the other... the thing almost fell over ... the IT guys nearly had a heart attack.

[Torque]

I believe you're right... I don't recall seeing anywhere on the thing it said RAMAC, just the IT guys refering to it as that and the IBM label... ahh found it in your link:

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibi..._3340.html

Yep, on the capacity, I was way off.

[pz1]

hmmm...I'm still trying to figure out why we need so much!!! You can only download so much.

I can tell you. In the late 70's/early 80's, we had a Sinclair with 250 bytes of RAM. Program had to be entered by the hexadecimal keyboard, and our first program was 52 bytes long. It ran 2 years to support an experiment. At the time we completed this program I sighed and said: Who will ever need 250 bytes?.....