On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 1, 2013, at 14:59 , Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013, Charles Robinson wrote: >>> Each RAW file is now larger than the first harddrive I ever owned. >> >> How big is that? (Can't seem to find file sizes anywhere obvious.) > > The first harddrive I had in my OWN computer (not my dad's) was 20Mb. > Then we upgraded to TWO 20Mb harddrives. > Then I connected them to an RLL controller (I think?) and some games were > played making them each 30Mb in size. > Ugh, what a lot of work for such a small amount of storage.
Sounds familiar. The first external hard drive I bought was 20M and connected via a serial adapter. Small and slow. Cost me $1500 or something like that. For my current system, I've got a row of five 2T external drives (system clone, Time Machine backup, working photo drive, two archive clones drives). All five of them, 10T total capacity, cost me less than $800. Times have changed. Data sizes have changed too. I scanned ten 6x6 negs the other day ... 150M apiece. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
