I do.
I remember the days when four or five of my friends and I would tremble in awe of the thought that among us, we had over 1 TB of space including our thumb drives, zip discs, and blank burnables!
I remember using my family's first 'computer' (the beloved Apple IIGS), with something like 1 MB of storage (Oregon Trail, anyone?), whose primary method for loading software was by booting from a 5 1/4" floppy disc (sorry kids, one of these).
I remember upgrading to our family's first non-disc reliant machine, also an Apple (Performa 5200 LC, my first introduction to 'windows' no, not Windows™; windows as a method for human-computer interaction), with 500 MB of storage.
Then came the Apple Performa 6400 with 1.6 GB of storage, and after the performa was a long-lived love-hate with the hunchback of Macintoshery, the iMac G3 (in original BondiBlue), featuring a curve-following 4GB drive.
Moving past the massive hand-cramp that was the many years of using the circle mouse, I decided to start my career as a computer owner and bought an iMac G4, with an internal HD whose capacity was 40GB (what a whopper!). The G4 is still running upstairs, relegated to use as a recipe-browser when I'm trying something new in the kitchen.
What a jump with the [already outdated but surprisingly relevant core 2 duo] intel iMac I'm typing on, with total internal storage capacity of 750GB and two external HD's totaling more than 2 TB.
Why am I musing on storage today? I'm currently moving data from one PS3 to another, the amount of which is over 180GB, after having just installed a 500GB drive into the new PS3. I've got media stored on several 1 and 2 TB drives around the room; in fact, in this room alone, I believe I can boast over 5TB of combined storage.
And to think; even connected via ethernet, it still takes just about 2 hours to transfer only 180GB! What the heck. Why haven't transfer speeds and cable specs kept up with storage capacity?
I want to use the new PS3 already! :P Time for Light Peak already!
50% and [slowly] counting!
Stay nerdy folks,
Chris
