When I got my first desktop computer in the late 90s, I thought "5 Gigs" was massively huge and thought it was way more than enough space... of course I was wrong. Early to Mid 2000 I got another desktop with 80gigs of space.... wrong again...
Now I have 320gigs on my laptop plus an extra 320gig external harddrive and they're almost chocked full to the brim with alot of rubbish photos, clips, music...etc..
Is it just me?
What do yous think?
[ September 21, 2010, 06:11 PM: Message edited by: FootLongSub Zero ]
Posted by sofatater (Member # 4209) on :
It's just you. ("pack rat") Seriously, though. I agree with you. As I don't have a huge hard drive, I've got stacks of cd's filled with photos, clips, music, all that stuff. I've had drives crash and lost everything.
The way we are today with access to all that we can find on the web, I don't think anyone will ever have enough data storage space. Can you imagine what we'd have stored if we'd started when we were kids?
We're in a whole new world of collecting and storing a detailed history of each of our individual lives. We're each creating our own personal "time capsule".
Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
The first Apple computer I had in the early 80s didn't have a HD and everything was stored on the old 5 1/2" floppies. Of course then you weren't downloading movies off of the internet. My first PC I got in the early 90s had an 850mb HD and a 75 mhz CPU and was looked at as a bad ass by my friends for being so fast! I quickly would fill up that drive with foot clips as mpeg videos started becoming popular then. Would have to pick and choose what to keep and delete.
Current PC is also outdated now as I got it back in '06. Has a 500GB HD and I have a 750GB external. I've still got lots of free space as I don't collect a whole lot of pictures or clips compared to some of the forum members here.
Posted by diamond johny (Member # 27586) on :
I keep a lot of crap myself. Get a terabyte external & you should be fine.
Posted by Rider Aldebaran (Member # 38525) on :
You think 320GB with a 320GB external isn't enough?
Try using a 65GB laptop with no external hard drive and only a few 1GB-2GB flash drives. -_-
Posted by nusuth (Member # 7372) on :
hehe.. when i got my first real PC it had an 200mb HD and i was thinking what the heck am i gonna do with all this space?? now i go through HDs like crazy. hell, my 80gb ipod (before it crashed and burned) only had about 7gb left on it. i think with each drop in storage price, things you can store on them get larger. i remember downloading movies that were a cpl hundred megs, now they are a cpl of gigs. it all scales up.
Posted by Flip flop fan (Member # 9565) on :
Our media server in the living room is running 2TB and I regularly have to delete the oldest items out of the download directory. We have her setup with a network folder for torrents, you can drop the torrent file from anywhere on the network and it will automagically start in uTorrent. Handy when you're out of the house and think of something you want to watch, fuck yeah iphones. We can download at 1.5 to 2 MB/sec (yes megabyte) and with five people downloading shit, it is constantly downloading.
With HDD space, it will never be enough.
Posted by Beautifulfeetonline.com (Member # 13717) on :
I got an external 8 Tb. storage system. Not enough I will have to get another one next year.
Posted by DeadGoon (Member # 24278) on :
quote:Originally posted by Rider Aldebaran: Try using a 65GB laptop with no external hard drive and only a few 1GB-2GB flash drives. -_-
I hear ya Rider... my specs are very similar and NOWHERE near these other guys. Will be getting new gear by the end of this year though. I've never been in a rush because I see how fast everything becomes obsolete. So it's kind of a big step for me LOL.
Posted by Andy-Laa (Member # 31511) on :
My netbook literally holds 7.5 gigs. (that's not including the system software which leaves me about 2-3 gigs of file space).
So screw you guys; I'm going home.
[ September 25, 2010, 12:06 PM: Message edited by: Andy-Laa ]
Posted by JKO12 (Member # 30609) on :
I thought that 130gb was a lot Now I have a 1TB external and 750gb internal I have around 180 left on my internal and 390 Gb on my external
Posted by The Lum (Member # 34830) on :
Just to through in my 2 cents. I have 120GB on the laptop and it's pretty much full but moving it all onto an old 160GB desktop until I maybe get a portable hard drive (circa 2TB).
Posted by A&F_FootDude_05 (Member # 2999) on :
Haha in 2020 having 2.5 TB is going to be laughed at....wonder how long it takes for a 1 petabyte drive to come out LOL thats the next step up from terabyte. (1000 TB).
Posted by combine_hunter (Member # 39526) on :
I don't think it's ever enough. I'm always finding new stuff that I think is worthwhile.
I'm stuck with a POS PC at the moment. Luckily, I "invested" in a couple externals, one 250 GB and one 500 GB.
My collection has swelled to >245,000 pictures and >3,700 videos. Sounds like a lot, but I bet it's pretty modest. Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
Saw the movie 'Jonny Mneumonic' on Fox (Cable). It's about a Data Courier, storing sensitive/important data into his brain via electrical implant. He had to dump a chunk of his memory (his childhood) which gave him a capacity of 80gigs and 160GB if he used a doubler. Is our mental storage space really this simple?
Posted by JKO12 (Member # 30609) on :
My USB drive is 8 gigs My pc is 750 I have thousands of gigs worth of hdds
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I will have to get another one next year.
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