Anton Piatek1d ago
never obsolete
Who Needs a 75GB Hard Drive?
Maximum PC - August 2000
https://books.google.com/books?id=4gEAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT79#v=twopage&q&f=false
Mar 27 at 5:04pmWeb
Show threadMillie1d ago
@256 they underestimate how much war3z, porn, and mp3s I have
Show threadMistake not ...7h ago
@gyro @256 how much was that in 2000? Back then the majority of porn and warez was on vhs similarly with audio, magnetic tape was a thing back then.
Show threadFive Element Ninja1d ago
@256 I remember looking at an 8GB hard drive at Best Buy in the late 90s and an employee telling me that I'd never fill that.
Show threadIBBoard1d ago
@FiveElementNinja @256 To be fair, with late-90s era photos and audio quality then it would have been rather tricky to fill it!
Show threadFive Element Ninja1d ago
@ibboard @256 That is true. However, a year or two later I was in university at the height of the file sharing era and would have made short work of that drive. πŸ˜„
Show threadlinear cannon1d ago
@256 i sit here reading this in the year 2026. the other window on my computer screen is a terminal in which i am monitoring the progress of backups of several terabytes of data from one of my computers to another.
Show threadMatt Hall1d ago

@256

As I download a 177GB mysql database for work.

πŸ‘€

Show threadRyoma1231d ago
@256 Come cambiano i tempi! Oggi servono come minimo 2 terabyte.
Show threadAlisonW β™ΏπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆβ™ΎοΈ1d ago
@256
640k should be enough!
Show threadSere πŸ‰ 1d ago
@256 Me with my phone with 128GB storage that is almost getting filled: ok josh
Show threadNina Felwitch 1d ago
@256 My music library is 76GB πŸ™ˆ
Show threadGavin1d ago

@256 they’re talking about IBM hard drives, so all high security facilities do. There was no faster way to yeet 75GB of data into oblivion than store it on one of those from that period. DBAN? Ain’t nobody got time for that, just let your IBM Deathstar render it inaccessible in an instant.

Yes, I’m bitter, what of it? Younger me did not give backups the respect they deserve.

Show threadDuncan Stephen1d ago
@256 Rough rule of thumb and maybe my sense is off, but I reckon 75GB of WAV files is only roughly 75 albums?
Show threadπ•π• π•™π•’π•Ÿ1d ago

@duncanstephen @256

Single CD as far as i remember is 740 Mb, so, it's 100 albums.

Show threadBill1d ago

@256 This was a wild question in 2000 since the first consumer 1GB hard drive only came out in 1992 and I'm sure even then they were asking "Who is this for?".

Anyway here's a screenshot from my NAS. Somewhere around the birth of the "content creator" we stopped asking.

Show threadmagnetichuman1d ago
@256 I remember around 2004 laughing and laughing with a friend about what you could do with a 1TB drive one day when we were curious and looked up what was the biggest consumer drive you could get at the time.
Show threadMartin EA7KRC1d ago
@256
Obviously didn't reckon on microslob bloatware
Show threadJake in the desert1d ago
@256 πŸ˜‚πŸ€£ I can't.
Show threadPepper1d ago
@256 MaximumPC, what a blast from the past. I somehow, as a young barely-teen with no income, managed to get several free years of their magazine subscription. Immensely formative.
Show threadgeorgia1d ago
@256 I'm so fucking old
Show threadThomas P. Moonis20h ago
@256 By 2005, the iPod would be available with a hard drive bigger than this for music storage alone.
Show threadDan Hallock14h ago
@256
We fill it with dinosaurs.
Show threadMistake not ...7h ago
@256 back then 10G was plenty so was 16M Ram