My geeky heart went a flitter this morning when my new Lacie 1 TB external hard drive arrived. It replaces my earlier 150 GB one, which I use for Time Machine backups with my Mac. The old one had worked just fine … right up until I filled most of my Mac’s hard drive. Suddenly I had more data than I had space to put it.
As a guy who started out on an Apple II+ with 5-1/4″, 180 KB floppy hard drives, this seems like a whole universe’s worth of space. And yet, it’s all too easy to fill up a drive this size when your computer has a 160 GB hard drive (or better yet, a 500 GB one).
It’s becoming a bigger issue at home as well, where I’ve about maxed out the hard drive on my Mac Book Pro with music, family photos, and family movies. I’m quickly approaching the point where I’ll need a 2 or 3 TB drive there as well … and possibly a nice iMac to manage it all. 🙂