Technology- Hard Drives
My first hard drive was a 40MB one for only $800. Yes, thats MB, and yes, Im sure there are people who dont consider
it to be a classic hard-drive unless it was a 5MB 8 inch model.
I distinctly remember when La Cie introduced a 70MB drive for $550 at MacWorld and
broke the $10/MB barrier. Years later we broke the $10/GB barrier, and a couple of years
ago broke the $1/GB barrier.
Just yesterday I bought a 300GB drive for $69 (after rebates), or in other words, costing
less than $.25 per GB. Its pretty amazing how the drives just keep getting bigger for less money,
even faster than CPUs and GPUs get better performance. Still its also a good reminder that nothing
has gotten at all better at managing all this cruft of information in the home (or workplace for that
matter). This drive from Seagate is supposed to have some software that helps me copy over the OS and
files from my old drive and set it up to boot but so far no luck- Ill report updates tomorrow.
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