@256 they underestimate how much war3z, porn, and mp3s I have
@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.
@FiveElementNinja @256 To be fair, with late-90s era photos and audio quality then it would have been rather tricky to fill it!
@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. ๐Ÿ˜„
@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.

@256

As I download a 177GB mysql database for work.

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@256 Come cambiano i tempi! Oggi servono come minimo 2 terabyte.
@256 Me with my phone with 128GB storage that is almost getting filled: ok josh
@256 My music library is 76GB ๐Ÿ™ˆ

@256 theyโ€™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? Ainโ€™t nobody got time for that, just let your IBM Deathstar render it inaccessible in an instant.

Yes, Iโ€™m bitter, what of it? Younger me did not give backups the respect they deserve.

@256 Rough rule of thumb and maybe my sense is off, but I reckon 75GB of WAV files is only roughly 75 albums?

@duncanstephen @256

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

@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.

@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.
@256
Obviously didn't reckon on microslob bloatware
@256 ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ I can't.
@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.
@256 I'm so fucking old
@256 By 2005, the iPod would be available with a hard drive bigger than this for music storage alone.
@256
We fill it with dinosaurs.