Hey sailor, are you really glad to see me or is that a KDTUGT in your pocket?
Posted on 01/05/2017 11:15:30 AM PST by C19fan
Remember not long ago, digital camera’s would never be successful because their resolution was so small...
Nowadays you’re not a real man unless you have at least 12 Gig of RAM.
One Terabyte will hold 19-20 industry standard 50 Gb Blu Ray movies.
Word of warning buying media on Ebay.
Much of the media you buy on Ebay has much less capacity than advertised. Oh, you'll plug it in, it'll show whatever the advertised capacity is. The biggest bang for the buck right now are 64gb cards and flash drives that are in actuality just 8gb.
They reprogram the memory controller to tell you whatever they want to tell you. If you never exceed the "real" capacity, you'll never notice.
Download h2testw and run it on your devices, see if they are what you think they are. If you got it at a bargain price, chances it's not.
Years ago, I had an electronics business purchasing excess inventory from companies in Silicon Valley.
I came into 5 pallets of 1Gb drives one day and thought “Who the Hell needs these things?”
That was 1993 and you can’t even boot a Windoze computer without using 10Gb of space.
I ended up selling them to a CAD/CAM firm and they assured me they needed the space.
My first ‘puter had a whopping 40 MB hard drive. My second had 100MB. 1 GB drives were not even available yet.
No one NEEDS high capacity storage.
In 1981 a 10MB was a big deal. And big bucks.
I paid around that much for an external. This was before the AT came out.
Honestly, I think I could make do with $64,000. (I just don’t know the answer to the question.)
“I don’t want an “enormous” 2 TB USB Drive! I want a teensy-weensy one that will fit, e.g., into my breast pocket.”
ROFL! I was thinking the same thing.
“Microsoft is working on the 1.5 terabyte version of windows as we speak.”
That’s just the command line version. If you want graphics, it’s over 1 petabyte now.
“You mean 10Gb drive right? In 1990 a 500Mb hard drive was a big deal.”
The PC I bought in January 1990 had a 48MB hard drive. When I killed it a few years later (1994) I replaced it with a 270MB hard drive because they had just broken the $1/MB price barrier.
Glad you asked!
I’m working on a video documentary from scratch. The base material contains gobs of home videos and stills, I mean lots of them. Then there are CAD drawings, word docs and spread sheets.
It all comes together with a multi part video.
To prove copyright, I’m not deleting any trial efforts, which are in the multitudes.
It boils down to what others have just said, photography can be a real hard drive hog.
I happened to see this thing yesterday in an article from the CES.
What a joke. It’s probably 40-50X the physical size of my newest 128 GB USB drive (which is barely larger than the USB connector itself). So, color me unimpressed.
But, this thread has some fun posts. So, thanks!
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