I don’t know if I mentioned, but I have added a 250 gigabyte hard drive to my computer, bringing my total storage up to 370 gigabytes. Once these hard drives are filled, I will have one third of a terabye of data on my computer. To back it all up, I will need almost 90 dvd-r’s.

A pack of 50 dvd-r’s on sale at Futureshop or Best Buy can run as little as $30. So for $60 I can back up all my storage. For $60 I will have close to half a terabyte of stored information.

What a crazy world we live in where for $120, I can have 1000 gigs of blank media. It boggles my mind.

I remember four or five years ago wondering if I would ever have one of those huge 40 gig drives in my computer. I remember working at a financial company a year ago and being amazed that we were backing up 2000 gigs every day on tape.

It won’t be long now until we have 1000 gigs in most high end computers, infact if you really wanted to, you could put three 400 gigabyte hard drives in your computer for around $1000.

Would it be worth it to be the first person on your block with a terabyte of storage? Probably not, especially with the way hard drives are starting to drop in price almost a dollar a day for certain models, but it would be interesting. How long would it take to fill such a space?

Broadband does not really keep up, as even if I could do four gigs a day, that is only 120 gigs a month, which means it would take me three months of constant downloading to max out my current hard drive capacity. Or around nine months to fill 1000 gigs. Makes me wish I had more money to get Fibre to my home, or atleast upgrade to High Speed Pro and get the extra meg per second download speed.

Remember what it was like to have a nice new 24x cd burner, and a 56k dial-up line? I wonder how long it will be with blu-ray and broadband over the power lines slowly coming down the pipe until we are saying “remember regular dvd burners and cable internet”?