Meandering thoughts while looking at replacement hard drives

[decay]

640 GB two-platter drive.

[Panopticon]

Greg, you're sleeping through the good deals!

2 weeks ago... 1TB Spinpoint + USB2 Dock: $76 shipped
No reason not to buy a 1TB @ that price :damnyou:

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The fact that hard drives are so cheap now is the one reason I'm sure that very soon now we'll start being told that you just have to have SSDs to have a really "good" system. :biggrin:

[Racer X]

Greg must not collect porn. More for me I guess.......

[Black]

Oops meant to PM.

Greg wrote:
My heavens...do I really need 2 terabytes? Or 1.5? Or even just 1TB?

My 500GB boot drive is dying, with 120GB available. I'm writing this from a 250GB; everything is backed up, no worries.

1TB is inexpensive. New 500GB are far less. 750GB are a bit more, but not much.

I just can't determine if 1TB is huge and awesome, or huge and ridiculous.

2TB is like a gigantic hole, full of vast dark cavernous empty space. (2GB used to seem this way also, I know.) Go ahead - download everything, save it all.

2TB is awesome...I just can't fathom ever using it. Which may be shortsighted!

Whee! Big and cheap! :-)