On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 02:51 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > I wonder if those >300gb drives will be high speed or not (7200 rpm or > faster). If so, you could have a new video capable Mac with over a > terabyte of storage space (alas, it will require an OS upgrade to > access all of the drive space though). If not, these could make > network attached storage devices worth buying -- that one is a bit of > a stretch as it is cheaper to buy a computer with lots of drive space > and use it as a server.
You could partition it into a couple of 120s and a tiny 60. It's amazing how fast storage is changing. It won't be too long before 100+ GB drives are the norm. It wasn't too long ago that I installed an "enormous" 20 GB drive. Now I don't even look at the sale prices for drives under 60 GB. I just bought a new laptop with a 30 GB drive, and am a little annoyed that the hard drive is so small, but I console myself by knowing a 100 GB upgrade will probably be cheap by next summer. A DVD seemed like an enormous disk at one time. Now I copy them to my hard drive so I can return the disk to Blockbuster and watch the movie later. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
