Wow we have moved on. I just bought a WD 1 TB eternal HDD the other day and when I totted up all my HDDs in my PCs, laptops, Ext HDDs an PVRs it comes to 2.5 TB! I reckon they are well over half full as well (photos and music mainly). Were will we be in another 10 years or so?

Euugghhh

Three drives on a sled! That's really going to hammer the rebuild times for the array.:thumbdwn:

Good old IBM hey :rolleyes:

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I'll remind you that next time you have array problems

Also I don't have brown hair or wear glasses

Still since it's IBM branded, I'll blame Chris :P

So are you at work or do you now have working DSL?

I'm no nerd... I'm a geek and proud :P

I am working.. but from home.. DSL goes off tomorrow afternoon :(

My first computer was a trusty old beeb model B with 32k or RAM.

My first "PC" was an PC-1512 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The hard drive made particular noises which are often fondly remembered by PC1512 or PC1640 users.

OMG, I can remember that much-loved sound. Must find a sound bite of it somewhere now... big nostalgia moment

Seriously though, my first big upgrade for the beeb was a dual 80-track 5 1/4 floppy disk drive. It cost £800 (in early eighties money!) :eek: But the ability to load Elite! in 5 seconds from disk instead of 10 minutes from tape was worth it

Its a hard disk in 1956....

The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive. The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

Makes you appreciate your 4 GB USB drive, doesn't it?

Makes you appreciate your 4 GB USB drive, doesn't it?

And DVD burners.

I had a play on a Spectrum in the 80's & couldn't make head nor tail of it, so I gave it back to my g/f at the times Dad & became a Luddite

Next was a DX2-66 in '93 after college with a 325Mb HD that a guy built for me in his dining room for half the price of a shop bought one and he wondered what the hell I was going to do with all that space - I wanted a cdrom drive & he recommended a 1x one! - and I still have that drive somewhere in a box (along with the 512's & 5Gb ones :lol:).

Old hard drives never die, they just hide in boxes under the stairs.

I just built another PC and sold it on ready for the next upgrade

My first computer was a VIC20 - 3.5Kb of RAM:rofl::rofl:

I was looking at a brown box HDD in PC World last week - 1Tb for £250 :eek::eek::eek: