At home, I have a computer I built in 2000 still running. I've only made one upgrade to the computer since I first put it together my senior year in high school; I added a second 60 gb hard drive. At the time, 60 gb was top of the line and incredibly expensive. Today I'm picking out a one terabyte external hard drive (for around the same price as that 60gb drive).
Have my needs increased? Have files themselves increased in size? We've certainly moved from consuming different types of media; we are transitioning from renting and buying dvds to downloading files; but even with my obsessive movie purchasing one terabyte seems like a luxury, or maybe unnecessary. I'm struck with the fact that the drive will mostly likely fail long before I ever fill it. I don't remember feeling this way when I jumped from the 2gb drive in my previous computer to the 60gb -- my music collection quickly consumed all of the available space, but maybe this is part of growing older, and with it, less revelant. Are teens filling up one terabyte drives with ease?
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