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Is 8GB a lot? Depends on the context. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Still remember my first 500MB drive, thought I would never manage to fill it up

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I remember being thrilled to move from floppies to a 16mb flash drive for my school assignments, even if I did have to constantly download and reinstall the USB Mass Storage drivers for the Windows 1998 sp2 computers in the library which reset every night. And the transfer speed was SLOW.

The fact that you can get a terabyte flash drive now, which can hold 62,500 of my school assignment drives, is mind blowing to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I always wanted the zip drives with 250mb capacity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Those were pretty cool. My dad had a single one in a hard plastic case, I want to say it was like 100 MB or something? I loved how chunky and solid it was.

I do feel like it'd be cool to have a storage medium that at least feels like that again. Like sliding a big hot-swappable SATA SSD into a slot and getting a satisfying "kaCHUNK" and a little busy light.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

At the very least that sounds like a good use for the front slots in a modern computer case, as you said allow hot swapping and it'd be a pretty good system for games in particular.