"the partially intellectual endeavor of a far-sighted geek", as my friend just now put it. It's the 'partially' bit that has me concerned, but whichever.

This is just food for thought, or as the topic title states, Hard drives for thought. it had occured to me that hard drives, or more specifically, space has been a rather large concern for us geeks or gurus. Somewhat futile, i might add. Space in terms of bits, bytes, kilobytes, etc. is completely relative.

For instance i remember... what 6-7 years ago i got my 2.5gb hdd for $200. That thing was the shiz. I mean heck. I could install Descent2 on the 'Crazy' install type. That was, suffice to say, crazy. Back then did we think the terabyte would be on the horizon? Doubtful. Most of us were going, "whats a terabyte?". And now, i have a buddy that has 2tb of space in his box. Unthinkable? Perhaps to some.

But ok.. lets take that 2tb. 2-3 years from now. What of it? Peanuts. Absolute peanuts. All storage space is relative to the time period. Even now we have 17tb drives the size of your thumbnail selling for $200k a pop. NASA buys em by the handful. Literally.

2-3 years from now perhaps the 10tb mark would be the same as our 1tb mark. People tell me im insane when i say i have 750gb of space. "What are you gonna do with all that space?!". Same thing i did when i had 2.5gb. I use it. :P

Just something to think about is all. Try not to freak out when you see someone with 2tb or more space in their box. Dont try to concieve what on earth they might fill it up with (you may not WANT to know). Instead just tell yourself that in time all that space will seem like nothing. It's all relative.


Anyhoo yeah. that just popped into my brain just now. simply food for thought. :P

Exactly. Hehe good to know someone else is on the same page.

My first computer was a Packard Bell 486sx with a 120mb hard drive and it was about $4000.    At the time people said 120mb is more than enough for what you need.

Times change.  Video games like Duke Nukem and Commander Keen fit on a 1.4mb floppy.  HL2 today weighs in at over 3gig+.

I read and article in PCWorld that said that HD's will max out at I think 1TB due to size of the platters but they are changing the way information is stored so they can fit more on each platter.

I think that we are going to start making the move to solid state data rather than moving HDD's.