On 10/18/2011 11:52 AM, John Francis wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:04:38PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Larry Colen
On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
So, I ordered a new external hard drive (Seagate GoFlex Free Agent,
FWIW) late last week and it arrived today. Upon picking up the
box, I thought, "Did I order the wrong item, or did those SOB's
/send/ me the wrong item!?!"
Turns out, they sent me the correct item, and I'm so far behind the
times technologically that I had no idea how little a 320 GB USB
external hard drive weighs these days. It seems just a little
heavier than an iPod Touch.
Quite cool! When did this happen?
I've got bad news for you, you should see how little a 1TB external
hard drive *costs*.
I think he's talking about how small the physical dimensions of an
external drive based on a 2-1/2 inch laptop drive are; the ones that
power directly off the USB connection.
I first began to see them right around the time the web-book
notepads were introduced, about 2 years ago. They'd probably been
around a while before that.
Yes, they have. I picked up a 320GB for my wife a couple of years
ago (which is about when the price dropped to something like $70).
I'd bought a 250GB unit for myself maybe a year earlier.
I guess it should have been pretty obvious that drives were getting so
small given how thin laptops are getting. But, if I were the kind of
guy who could put two and two together, I'd have the money to buy a new
laptop instead of just expanding my storage until my motherboard finally
goes out.
-- Walt
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