New Hard Drive
Though I have four of them already, my hard drive situation isn’t looking so good: I’m down to just under 200gbs free. Now that may sound like a lot, but when you collect software, ROMs and ISOs, TV series, full length movies, skate videos, and dozens of albums a month…and add to that a new high-res digital photography obsession, it goes fast. Fortunately for me, hard drives are dirt cheap these days.
I remember less than two years ago, you could figure about $1 per GB; a 160gb hard drive (huge at the time) would run you $150-$180 or so. Hell, even a year ago when I built my new computer, my 300gb HDDs were a big deal. I was surprised, then, when I went to make an investment in a 500gb drive, and it ran me about 30 cents a GB. My 1gb cards for my camera cost $50 a piece; $150 is not a problem to increase my hard drive space by another 50%. I also picked up a sexy metal external enclosure for it so I can schlep it around if I have to. I plan on partitioning it into two drives to house my Lightroom photo database and MP3s, since I outgrew my 80gb MP3 drive quite a while ago.
It just came in today, and I’m hooking it up now. That takes me to 1.5 Japanese terabytes, kids.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Is it kind of weird or annoying that it says METAL GEAR BOX on the side/bottom of the enclosure?
March 8th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
I welcome the obvious video game reference.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I was thinking about that. Does it also transport rations and cigarettes?
March 8th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Haha, most likely.
March 8th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Please stop referring to your electronics as “sexy”
March 8th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Please stop referring to your electronics as “sexy”
March 8th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
And please don’t make fun of duplicate comments.
Thank You
March 9th, 2007 at 12:39 am
You’re just jealous because all your electronics are way butch.