Re: now's the time to buy a hard drive!

[yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Jeremy Chadwick)]

Eric D. Shepherd (uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu) wrote:

: I don't think 100Mb is all that expansive.  A hard drive isn't truly huge
: until it gets around 500Mb or more. :)

	IMHO, you're wrong :) I live perfectly find with my 85MB HD, and
I have about 45-50MB left. I never run out of room, therefore I don't see
why a personal-computer user would need more than 200MB, unless they're
doing software development, or enjoys leeching stuff so badly that they
need to be shot and learn how to delete files :).
	500MB would be good for a starting UNiX system (watches the flames
pour into his mailbox); look at nyx...

	And Frank is pretty much right. $1 a MB is about average for IDE
but most SCSI drive I see around here run for about $2-$3 a MB. Still
pretty high up locally. I bought my 85MB Quantum external 3.5" for around
$380, and that included the case; that was last December.

						Jer.