While I'm recovering data from 2 120 Gigabyte 5.25" SATA drives, it occurred to me that I have over 1 terabyte of storage on my desk. Younger people may not think it's a big deal, but it's a bit of a shock to someone who remembers 10 megabyte hard drives.

I started counting the laptops hard drives - 250 Gigabytes and 40 Gigabytes (Solid State) comes up to 290 Gigabytes. The recent addition for both laptops is a Western Digital My Passport Elite 500GB (Blue), and that brings us up to 790 Gigabytes. Toss in the two Barracuda 120 Gigabyte SATA drives (240 Gigabytes), we're now up to 1030 Gigabytes. Two 16 Gigabyte USB sticks brings 32 Gigabytes more, for 1062 Gigabytes. The 16 Gigabytes in the camera brings it to 1078 Gigabytes. The two 80 gig IDE drives is... 160 Gigabytes, which brings us to a total of 1238 gigabytes. Assorted older USB sticks give another 6 gigabytes for a total of 1244 Gigabytes.

That's 1.244 Terabytes. If I were to count RAM, we'd be looking at 1.250 Terabytes. Mobile phone would add more...

28 years ago, I had a 5 kilobyte Vic-20 and a cassette drive.

I never filled a cassette with my code and data from a Vic-20. And I've only once actually ever run out of hard drive space (real-time data recording at work in the 90s)...

And now I've got 1.25 terabytes scattered over my desk. Wow.