I remember back in the day a guy who bought a hard drive that held 1 gigabyte. Why the fuck would anyone EVER need a gigabyte of storage, people asked. That’s just insane.
Good times.
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I understand needing the storage, I just wonder why it has to be internal. No spinning hard drive will out-pace even USB3 throughput, much less USB C.
I had a math teacher who swore she would never need to upgrade her 28.8 kbps modem because, I kid you not, “you can’t read faster than that.”
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Just bought a new PC and with my added drives I have 6TB of space and I’m thinking it should be enough for now. Those thoughts always remind me of the first really good PC Mrs Sid and I bought in 93 or so, a 486 with a 450Mb HD and when I called a friend about it he said the same thing, “what in the world are you going to do with all of that space?”. TImes sure change.
For the aforementioned Blu Ray rips. Once I’ve transcoded them for iTunes, a movie can be between 5 and 25GBs, depending on how long and how “busy” it is. They add up quickly.
I have a 40TB disk array but it’s RAID 5 so I only have 30TB usable. Only.
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Keeping it uncluttered. The whole point of an iMac is that you don’t have a million things plugged into it. You can, but it spoils the look.
I figured aesthetics would trump performance.
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The HDD is really just for movies, where fast access isn’t an issue. The 240GB SSD is big enough to store the OS and all applications, with a bit left over for frequently-used files. It’s parked right on the main board, too.
It’s really a 240GB SSD with a plugged-in 8TB HD, just plugged-in on the inside.
I get it. I’m just razzin’ ya. Every iMac user I know has an external drive of some sort connected to it. I use mine for video editing so I have several arrays as well as back-up drive cradles and extra monitors all over my desk space.
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What’s the point of doing anything if you can’t look like James Bond doing it?
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Or, as in my case, a complete slob.
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Where the hell are all the cats?
One’s editing on my other system. One is making copies. One’s on a zoom call with a prospective client. One is typing an email. One is on my lap.
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Have you honestly never noticed Ty is actually 15 cats in a trenchcoat?
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No but more than once I had wondered why he always wears a trenchcoat. Really, the only other people who invariably wear trenchcoats on the gulf coast of Florida are a few select Clearwater Scientologists.
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I remember when my dad removed one of the two 5.25” floppy drives from our IBM PC-XT and installed a 3.5” floppy drive and 20MB hard drive in the same drive bay. When he powered it on for the first time and ran the “dir” command on his brand new C drive, he sat back and said, “This is the last hard drive I will ever buy.”
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The first PC I ever built for work was an PC-XT with a 20mb MDM hard drive. It had an 8088 x86 processor with a separate math co-processor chip. Just the PC (no monitor, KB, printer, etc…) was $4,800 in mid-80’s $$ ($12K in 2020 $$). And, the company was happy to pay it since it absolutely transformed and automated their accounting department.
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