Centauri's Thoughts

Inevitably, you start running out of disk space and need more. These days, when you are working your older 40 Gig hard drives, you have 2 choices. Take out the old drive, and put in a completely new one, and reload everything
-or-

put the new one in as a secondary drive.


We were looking at drives today (and prices). The first thing we noticed was the smallest drive you can get is 80 Gig. The next thing we noticed was the cost for a 120 gig HD is close to the price of an 80.


Drives for the average PC consumer on the upper end of things is now 300 gig for only $229.00 - compare this to getting and 80 gig for $99.00


One drive we looked at was a 250 gig drive, which after rebates was pretty darned reasonable.. UNDER $80. OK let me give you that number another way: 250 Gigabyes = one quarter TeraByte!


If we were doing some real-time editing of DVD quality movies.. I could see having this much disk space. On Unix, when we are not running HUGE Database servers, this kind of space is Obscene, and very nearly a crime!


Our operating system with all the installed apps we have is barely 3 Gig. Winderz in comparison puts a good 3 Gig into the "Program files" for an equivelent system with HTML editors and graphics installed, and this does not include the server parts.
I am truly amazed at the size of drives these days!, people have enough issues with not backing up. This just gets them into deeper trouble!


I have no idea what we will do in this house with a TeraByte of disk space, but I see exactly that within another year.. we typically have 4 or 5 machines ready to go here. We already have 40+40+80+40+120 soon. Thats 320 Gig. almost a 1/3 Tera. LOL - over 4 machines, and you can get a 300 Gig drive now.. with 4 IDE controllers.. you could put 4x300 in a single PC.. that 1.2 Tera right there!