On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:04:38PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen > >On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote: > >>So, I ordered a new external hard drive (Seagate GoFlex Free Agent, > >>FWIW) late last week and it arrived today. Upon picking up the > >>box, I thought, "Did I order the wrong item, or did those SOB's > >>/send/ me the wrong item!?!" > >> > >>Turns out, they sent me the correct item, and I'm so far behind the > >>times technologically that I had no idea how little a 320 GB USB > >>external hard drive weighs these days. It seems just a little > >>heavier than an iPod Touch. > >> > >>Quite cool! When did this happen? > > > >I've got bad news for you, you should see how little a 1TB external > >hard drive *costs*. > > I think he's talking about how small the physical dimensions of an > external drive based on a 2-1/2 inch laptop drive are; the ones that > power directly off the USB connection. > > I first began to see them right around the time the web-book > notepads were introduced, about 2 years ago. They'd probably been > around a while before that.
Yes, they have. I picked up a 320GB for my wife a couple of years ago (which is about when the price dropped to something like $70). I'd bought a 250GB unit for myself maybe a year earlier. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
