Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk>]

On 09/12/2022 00:45, Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Friday, 9 December 2022 00:03:29 GMT Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I think back sometimes, I started out with a 30GB hard drive waaaay back
>>> in 2003.  I thought I had problems then.
>> Then you won't want to know that I paid extra in 1990 for an 85MB drive in my
>> first PC. No, not GB: MB.
>>
> 
> I worked at a puter place in the late 80's.  They had old hard drives
> that were only a few MBs and had 14" platters.  Yes, 14" platters.
> Funny thing is, you could replace the platters in those.  You open the
> drive, replace platter, reassemble drive, turn on fan which had a hefty
> filter on the intake.  Once it ran long enough to have clean air inside,
> spin up the drive and go back to work.
> 
> I even remember when 512KBs of ram was a big deal.  I also remember
> having expansion cards that would add a few MBs of ram.  Jeez I'm
> getting old.  o_O  We talk about TBs like they are nothing.  My first
> puter was a old Vic-20.  4Kbs of ram it had.  I played music on that
> thing and freaked my Dad out.  ROFL
> 
I remember those things. About 16 MB per platter. I remember my work 
buying a 300MB drive (19 platters in a disk pack, the size of a washing 
machine) for our multi-user mini that served the entire company with 
256KB of ram ...

Cheers,
Wol