Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Shrinkage

Yesterday I got a new USB external hard drive from newegg. I was struck by how much this technology has improved in the last few years. I dug out my very first external drive that I think I got in 2006. It had a noisy cooling fan and required a big external power supply.

So I put them side by side.



They cost roughly the same, the new one holds 1T and if I recall the old one is around 100GB. The old one is the size of a large book, the new one is the size of my passport, except it's thicker.

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