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Rob Beard wrote: > Funnily enough too, I was swapping my dad's old Duron 750 into a brand > new case today and showed my other half the hard drive. A Seagate 3.2GB > drive, cost me about £120 when I bought it I think. I explained that it > was a smaller capacity than the 4GB MicroSD card I have kicking around. > Just think in another 10 years we'll probably look at old ancient 1TB > hard drives and compare them to 4TB flash storage :-) In the early 90s my boss and I bought some additional drives for our departmental multi-processor 386 box. I remember we thought they were cheap because they worked out at no more than £1 per megabyte. They were huge, too -- about as big as six or seven modern 3.5" hard drives put together. And now you can get a 2TB drive for less than £200... Of course back then there was the advantage that backup media capacity way exceeded the capacity of the average hard disk :) James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html