Geek alert: 750 GB hard drives

[bjarvis]

Yesterday, Seagate announced their new 750 GB hard drive:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060426/ap_on_hi_te/seagate_monster_drives_1

Gawd. Imagine how many tonnes of punched cards these things could have replaced if we still used them.

Comments

[jkusters]

And I was just shopping for a new hard drive last night... :-)

(I spent the good part of a Summer one year taking cases and cases of punched cards and reading them into a computer so that the programs they contained could be stored on magnetic tape. Punch cards are fun! Card readers are even funner! ;-)

JOhn.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Don't know when the 750 GB drives will be available, but the 400 GB ones currently are. My pr0n collection isn't anything like that big (yet).

[jkusters]

*LOL*

I actually do not know why we're running out of space on the computer in question. It's shared by everyone in the household (though I only use it to play Sims 2 and Age of Empires), so I suspect that somebody in my house is storing lots of, um, stuff. We were down to 1GB left on a 120GB drive the other night.

It seems almost absurd that even through storage capacity grows by leaps and bounds, we're always almost out of room...

JOhn.