I remember when a 5 meg hd was a thing to have.
A friend and I bought 10 gig hard drives together -- the first ones we each had ever owned. He asked me: "How are we ever going to fill these up?"
I bought my first computer used, it had a 300MB external HD.
It went out just as I finished a project that I contracted for $600.
The replacement drive was 600 MB and cost $600.
I still have that Mac.
My current computer has 2.25 TB of onboard storage and it’s 85% full.
Wild times...
In 1973 I went on a field trip from business college class to the IBM plant in Morgan Hill CA to see the Winchester HardDrive. My memory is that it was 20 mb. Wiki said it was planned for two 30 mb spindles thus the name Winchester. And eventually produced as either 35 or 70 mb.
They were as big as a wash machine, and I still hold we were told 20 mb.
I think I paid about $3K for an external 10MB back in the day. No more swapping floppies. WooHoo! I was cookin with gas.
I remember a brief moment in time when PCs would have 2 or 4 hard drives connected together to make one huge (at the time) drive.
My first hard drive was 20 meg in a $2000 Goldstar clone. Today that hard drive would hold about 4 lo-res mp3s.
Go Wiki...time to break our the Julian Assange t-shirts...
I remember telling an older woman she would never need 1gb, lol.
I thought I was getting ahead of the game when I added my second 10 meg HD to my 286.
At only 2995.00!
LOL! Me too - the first 20M drive I got was so big I decided to partition it....
Around 1987 the insurance guy who shared an office with us bought and IBM XT with 20 meg HD. We calculated it would take him 15 years at the current rate of storage to fill it up.