It had 20 megabytes and cost $1300, which in those days was enough to buy a pterodactyl. When you turned it on, it spun up with a WHIRRRR that sounded just like the engine on a Concorde made of solid gold
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The nostalgia of old computer hardware sounds is an underrated emotional trigger. Nothing comes close to the pants-filling terror of a [click,click,click] when there's no backup
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A Zip drive back in the late nineties could store about ten thousand Web pages, which just happens to be the same capacity as the 48 TB array I set up this morning
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A year or two ago I got to see up a 96-terabyte RAID 60 and parts of me are still tingling.
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I set up 480 TB arrays on the regular. Built from standard whitebox components, none of this proprietary crap. Way cheaper than renting storage from Amazon.
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How do you pry the women off of you long enough to format the drives
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I had a boss who thought anyone who had a hard drive larger than 5MB would write too much code
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And he was right!
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I had a similar sensation when: 1. I downloaded a 122 MB update for Twitter. My first HDD was 40 MB. 2. I ordered 2x128 GB MicroSD card. My wife asked what was in the envelope. "1/4 TB." "Wait, what?" 3. This: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwc3zQhl76/
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I never had the heart to throw away my zip drives. I had so many, and they've been beyond useless for so long. But it's hard to let go. I'm not even a packrat, just some things make me act this way
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