Two One Gigabyte Drives

You've come a long way baby. From refrigerator sized monstrosities to drives smaller than a deck of cards, random access storage has come a long way.

What you're looking at is a gigantic 1GB hard drive from 20 years ago. The 70-pound, belt-driven monster is positioned next to someone holding up a 1GB flash card for comparison. So there you have it: over the course of 20 years, 1GB of storage has gone from the size of a Yaris' engine to something smaller than a postage stamp.

I remember buying my first large drive as I wanted more space on my computer and the 128MB drive I had just wasn't big enough. So I decided to get a drive big enough that I would never need another. Ah, youth. I bought an 850MB drive that kept me happy for quite some time.
Now my computer has 250GB and I', starting to feel cramped.