[driftdiver]

I bought a new 250GB hard drive for my laptop, $89.

[ROTB]

>I bought a new 250GB hard drive for my laptop, $89.

Maybe the point is:

1) they keep backups
2) your laptop needs less power
3) dropping your laptop or getting it stolen does not mean the loss of your data
4) your laptop is lighter

[ctdonath2]

I bought a new 250GB hard drive for my laptop, $89.

Wow - big enough to hold a whopping 10 BluRay discs!

Sarcasm aside, that points at the issue: no matter how much storage you throw on a machine, it's still not enough to hold your whole digital life without selection, pruning, and maintenance. Far easier (maybe cheaper) to give $50/year to someone to give you all but unlimited storage, rather than having to upgrade to the next bigger drive each year and fiddle with moving everything around (I'm trying to shuffle 5 drives onto 1 new 1TB pocket drive; hassle!).

[packrat35]

Got a 2 TB external hard drive for $89 on Black Friday sale.

[MHGinTN]

I just replaced the HD in this laptop with a 250G, for under sixty bucks! It is SATA though.

[dangerdoc]

I bought a 1 gig WD 2.5 inch USB drive for $120 a couple of months ago, saw them advertised for less than $100 last week.

I’d hate to try to get to my video archive on the cloud. Not to mention keeping my confidential business info on a hard drive somewhere out there on the net with no security other than a wink and a nod from Google.

[balls]

The idea of the diskless PC died in the early 90’s. By the way, I’ve seen 2TB drives for less than $90.00.

[markman46]

I bought one of those for my netbook last yr