Hard Drive Milestone

I can remember my first hard drive.  It was in college – I think it was an IBM PC-AT – it was 20MB and it seemed huge at the time (and it was for all I had were wordperfect files) – and it was very expensive.  I don’t even remember how it connected.

Then I remember buying a new 200MB drive for the lab I was working in – I think it was like $600 and it didn’t feel as large because now we were using photoshop and canvas – but still it was pretty mind blowing that you could get one drive that could hold 200MB.

Now today I just got in the mail a 1TB drive.  Terabyte = 1000GB or 1 trillion bytes = (1,000,000,000,000) bytes.  

The price $99

Unfortuntely USB seems to be winning out over firewire in terms of prevalence, and neither USB nor eSATA allow daisy-chaining the way FW does.  But with sizes like this – maybe its less of an issue, for now….