An embarrassment of riches


My first hard drive was a 40mb hard drive for an Amiga 600. At the time I was thrilled to have so much space. How could I ever use up that whole capacity? Impossible, I thought. Absolutely impossible. Fast-forward 15 years or so. After the hard drive I just added to my system (and big thanks to the gPartEd LiveCD team for creating such a mind-bogglingly useful live cd), my main Xubuntu machine has a total of 480gb of hard drive space.

Back in the day, I would’ve never been able to comprehend a single gigabyte of data. But having just shy of a half a terabyte on my own personal computer?

My how the world has changed.

  1. No comments yet.
(will not be published)
  1. No trackbacks yet.