On Sat, October 11, 2008 5:39 pm, Simon Royal wrote: > > Hi. > > I've never been a subscriber to massive hard drives. > > What does the average user do with all that space? Who actually uses > 1000GB? Then you have the question of backing up. The larger the storage > the larger the back up needed.
Hi Simon! My first "hard drive" was a HardCard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard). It was 10 MEGS and I paid probably close to $800 for it with an employee discount (I am showing my age LOL) 3 or so years ago I had purchased an external 160gb to be used as a backup and emergency boot drive for my G4 FW800. Enter my 30gb iBook, which also needed to be backed up. I added a 320gb external so it could backup both machines. Then my digital pix took over about a year ago. Hubby got a digital SLR which didn't help! They moved over to the 160gb (and were also backed up onto the 320) I just purchased 2 500gb drives for my G4 FW800 (one is a bootable backup). It came with a 120gb. I've been at the 10gb free mark for quite some time, which is way too low for comfort. So, will I ever use all that space? I am not sure. But I also never thought I'd fill 10 megabytes either. I will say it took quite awhile to get close to the 120gb. I probably had 40-60 in my Yikes! over a few drives. But with operating systems and applications getting bigger all the time, I am guessing it will happen sooner rather than later. Diane --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
