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This topic got me to thinking About Stuff:
> The Lounge > Noob Days...Back in the dinosaur days of 1999, I worked & lectured on the main campus of a major State University. About 35,000 students and about another 20,000 professors, teachers, staff & such. I helped with maintenance of the entire user directory system for the campus ... all email, user data, etc. for everyone that was stored on their university accounts.
We performed an upgrade to the main storage array of hard drives, in which the total space available was a staggering 2 terabytres of space, with all standard accounts getting upgraded from 30 MB of locker to 50 MB of locker. It was a project that took several technicians and thousands of dollars over a three-day weekend to implement.
I now have 2 x 2 TB hard drives in a single, external housing. As
one of my storage solutions. About 65%-70% of that 3.64 TB of formatted capacity is filled with anime and music. I swap 2 TB drives in and out of the enclosure in under five minutes, and am watching, lustfully, the newer 3 TB drives for advances and stability.
Another example: I used to have four large-ish briefcases filled with 1.44 mb floppy diskettes on which I backed up all my data and software. They were purchased cheaply at pawn shops and were ideal for protection & transport. There were even a dozen or so precious 100 MB ZIP drive disks tucked in there. My CD storage solution was a different system, and burnable DVDs were a technology still being invented.
Last week I placed a single micro-SDHC chip, literally the size of the fingernail on my pinkie, into my digital camera. 16 gigabyte capacity ... probably 16x or 20x the total data storage in those four briefcases. If I sneeze at the wrong moment, I could lose that micro-SDHC in the carpet, maybe never to be found until a vacuum sucks it up.
What examples you guys got ...? They could be anything, not necessarily technology like mine.
