Computer storage is very cheap right now so if
you're looking to add some space to store audio
graphics, etc, right now is a good time.

I got a couple of Western Digital 750GB externals
with 3.0 USB for $67 each!

Also picked up a 32GB Sandisk flash drive for $15!

Hard drives were cheaper before the natural disaster in Thailand. 1 GB internals were trending down to about $89. They've settled down a little bit, but the "double the drive size every 2 years for the same amount of money" equation is out the window.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Yup...isn't technology wonderful?

I have a magnetic disk drive from the 80's with (4) 12" platters. Total size of the disk? 350MB. That's MegaBytes not GigaBytes.

Truly amazing to see how things get smaller physically but with capabilities never dreamed of just 20 years ago!

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"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

I got 3 500 gig seagate externals for $25 each off the clearance isle at walmart last week.
i think an employee just made a mistake though

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i remember when it used to cost so much to buy flash drives. or memory sticks, sd cards, micro sd. now its pretty dirt cheap! i saw a 1TB external hard drive for $90 at radio shack the other day! thats a great price

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Squier For Life!

Peavey Mark IV Bass head
Peavey 2x10
Peavey 1x15

the first thumb drive "flash drive" i bought in like 2001 was 15mb and cost me $129.00

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I work at the IT racket and I have had several external hard drives fail over the past 3 years. For my pictures and personal information, I still burn to a dvd or cd. They can be safely stored in a drawer and the information retrieved easily.

I use solid state drives for any important data, and they are way faster in a computer.

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i remember buying an mp3 player when they first came out, even before Apple started ripping everybody off. it held 1 album, was fiddly to use and cost me about 2 months wages !!

i was a 14 year old paper boy though.

the first mp3 player I purchased ( that it was worth having) was the
Creative Nomad Jukebox. big ugly bulky thing but at the time it was handy, awful battery life though and recently I got a cowon j3 for less than I paid for the creative and it is 10 times more advanced i cant wait to see what comes out in ten more years

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Implants

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-T

"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

I think it will be a neural interface

but with Bluetooth technology, implants aren't far off anyways. if one of those could be powered by the electricity generated in our body's it would be handy. imagine you just wiggle your ear to answer calls

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The first pc based hard drive I remember attached to an 8086 IBM pc, was 10 mb and cost about $2,500. Of course, back then Bill Gates told us all 640k memory was all any body would ever need.
But I wonder what anyone would fill up a terbyte drive with at home unless they had some sort of a home based business.

music all my stuff is FLAC format so it takes up tons of space

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I just don't see the utility in ripping every cd I own, and certainly not dvd's / blu rays.

If I want some background music cable or radio works great.
If I want to sit down and really listen to some music cd's work great.
I seldon watch a movie or concert dvd / blu ray more than once, maybe a concert once a year or so, so no need to rip those.

I don't use itunes, probably would and would store on a hard drive if it was available at greater than standard cd quality / red book / 16/44.

But I'm still old school. I like technology but will only use it if is better, cheaper or easier way to do something.

Music and increasingly Photos.
Not that I'm ripping all of my CDs (only collectible ones) but I have a few thousand LPs, many of which were never issued on CD so...

And lots of stuff I learn on Guitar Forums!! Would probably be simpler if I could have access to copy the db every few months.

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"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield