James Knott composed on 2019-12-17 09:08 (UTC-0500):
Per Jessen wrote:
Still, a 600PB drive .....
My first hard drive was a whopping 30 MB! ;-)
I also recall a friend boasting he had a whole GB spread over 4 drives, a few years later.
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