32TB hard drives are incoming according to Toshiba - eviltoast
Using its Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) tech, Toshiba has unlocked a new level of hard drive capacity in its latest HDD demo.
  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
    321·
    6 months ago

    When I bought my first PC about 1982. The seller told me that I would never live long enough to fill up the 10MB drive. I still bought the 40MB drive and it was still too small.

    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      I remember getting a 2 GB hard drive and thinking I’ll never be able to fill it up. Now I have video files more then 10 times that size

    • emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
      62·
      6 months ago

      I think you might be off by a few years at least, a 40MB drive in 1982 would’ve been incredibly uncommon.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        8·
        6 months ago

        Idk man.

        In the 1980s 8-inch drives used with some mid-range systems increased from a low of about 30 MB in 1980, to a top-of-the-line 3 GB in 1989.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

        Seems like 30MB wasn’t horribly uncommon in “mid-range systems” in 1980, so I doubt that 40MB in 1982 would’ve been “incredibly uncommon.”

        But I’ve no personal experience from the time.

      • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
        1·
        6 months ago

        It is possible that I might be slightly mistaken over something unimportant that happened 40 years ago. Yes it is possible.