Need more space on your SSD?

In 20 years 60TB will be the size of a flea

It'll die within 6 months. That's the seagate guarantee

I can remember paying $50 for 8MB of RAM.

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ust the other day I bought 64GB flash drives for $8 a piece.

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BB had a PNY 256gb jump drive for $50.

It's not a iron key or Sandisc but it's also not bad for that price.

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Good lord y'all are babies. My first trs-80 had the os on the top 5.25 floppy drive and my data on the bottom floppy.

My first pc out of college was a Mac SE with a mind-blowing 20mb hard drive that made noises like a dot matrix printer when it would read or write data.

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Sounds very much like my experience. My first PC was a Leading Edge Model D. 2 5.25 floppies so I could have the OS on one disk and swap the other for whatever I wanted to run. The main selling feature for that unit was a toggle switch on the back of the unit to swap the CPU clock speed from 4.77 mHz to a blazing 7.12 mHz.

I didn't want one of those unreliable hard drive thingies.

My next was a homemade AT with a 20 mB hard drive. I could not fathom the idea of filling that huge mother up.

My how things have changed.

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imagine how many thousands of dollars in data overage charges you'd incur with Comcast trying to make a remote backup.

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It would cost nearly as much as the drive if they didn't limit overage charges to $200/month.

Then again, it's impossible to upload 60TB in one month at 25mbps (Extreme 300 upstream rate). Best you could hope for is about 8TB/month, so it would take about 8 months of nonstop uploading to make that initial backup.

So at least $1600 in overage charges, or without the $200 cap it would run you $12,000 in overages at $10 per 50gigs.


Either way, hilarious value placed on a service with essentially $0 incremental cost.

I paid $200 for 4 mb ram at Babbages one time.

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My first trs-80 had the os on the top 5.25 floppy drive and my data on the bottom floppy.

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You were the cool guy with two floppy drives. I used a cassette player and one floppy.

The OS was something some hobbyist had put together that required you to track the sector and block where you stored your programs. Literally you told it to flush whatever was in memory to a segment starting with sector and block A and if your program was large enough to take enough space to start writing over used space that was your fault.

And when you wanted the program back you told it to start loading from the sector and block you wrote down on a piece of paper.

Everyone else couldn't understand why I *loved* TRSDOS once I got it.

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Good lord y'all are babies. My first trs-80 had the os on the top 5.25 floppy drive

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My C-64 had a cassette player. Nothing like dying and taking 20 minutes to reload the game.