[irishjuggler]

Anyone remember the olden days (i.e., the late ‘80s) when a 30mb hard drive was kind of a big deal? Crazy to see storage up one million-fold... in a smaller form factor.

[LivingNet]

30MB? 30MB? we used to dream of having 30MB. I had to save my programs on a cassette tape.

[dfwgator]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #4.

[roadcat]

Anyone remember the olden days (i.e., the late ‘80s) when a 30mb hard drive was kind of a big deal?

Yup. In early 1985, I bought a 20MB hard drive for $400 and my boss got pissed at me, because he bought a 5MB hard drive a year earlier for more than $400. A 20MB drive was huge! You could store a lot of 5-1/4 floppy disc content on it, either 360KB or 1.2MB in size.

[TexasGator]

“Anyone remember the olden days (i.e., the late ‘80s) when a 30mb hard drive was kind of a big deal? “

In the ‘olden days’ there were no hard drives ...

[wbill]

in a smaller form factor.....

...With speeds that are unimaginably faster.

Something like this takes away the disk as the bottleneck, regardless of what you're trying to do with it.

[Bobalu]

I recently bought a 60 dollar thumb drive with 256GB.

I thought that was big...now comes a 32TB 2.5” drive...cool.

I remember 10mb hard drives... they were friggin boat-anchors!

It will not be long until I can get a thumb drive that will hold all my data... roughly 60TB

[NoLibZone]

Today , a mouse driver is larger than the first HD’s on “IBM PCs”.