80 gigabytes!

[Kosh800]

My first HDD was 100 MB in my 486-66. Before that it was just the big ass floppy disks ... the ones that were actually floppy. =P

[HellzNord]

8 HD movies and your computer is full lol

[Kite117]

My 2000 laptop had only 60 gb. I think whoever sent that email was jealous of me.

[hornedragon]

i thank i would be much higher in 2021 more like a Petabyte

[shadybrain3424]

@hornedragon petabyte? sounds like it should be court ordered to go around the neighborhood and introduce itself. :p

[Zeaed]

What do you need 80gb for?

[z00h]

80 gig hdd, good luck finding one under 1000 bucks at the moment (Nov 2011)

[HDFilms123]

@z00h My cousin has 6 20-40 GB old old harddrives :D

[scionicspectre]

Yeah, the last time I tried backing up 160 GB, it totally costed me THOUSANDS of dollars. *facepalm* I'm glad I was too young to care this was recorded.

[ccsmiley2]

lol, IDE

[KelvinW344]

I wonder how I ever could use a computer without an SSD as the system disk...

[123stephenno]

80 gigs is impressive today, immagine how impressive it was back THEN !

[TheFatty2497]

I bought the cheapest netbook at my local discount computer store and it has double 80 gigs of hard drive. Things have changed so much.

[sparkyblaster]

raid. yeah very practical lol. if you doing a file server with a xeon. try raid 5

[sparkyblaster]

raid. yeah very practical lol. if you doing a file server with a xeon

[MSCompuServ]

SSD are just starting to break ground ten years later from this video and mine is only 60GBs! Of course it is boot only but the prices will need to come down drastically before SSDs go mainstream.

[jchambers2586]

I am so glad SATA replaced IDE.

[thedarkone2134]

@jchambers2586 Same here.

[Jacquibim]

So... 80GB in 2001?

3TB in 2011? (80x37.5)

Does this mean...

112.5TB in 2021?

[bnza10]

@Jacquibim no. more like in 2021 there will be 1 petabyte drives or more. you have to consider that the machines we have now can move so much faster than the machines before therefore research is a lot faster.

[Jacquibim]

@bnza10 - Yeah, hence why the growth of drive capacity is exponential.

[SRNF]

@Jacquibim i wouldnt be surprised if some nerd already has 100 tb via external hds.

[Ch4lmrah]

@Jacquibim This also means you get 10tb games, but STILL with laggy graphics.

[Fickdichechtjetzt]

@Jacquibim no...technology grows exponentially...so its more like 100 peta or exabyte in 2021...well more like 2031 but still

[Jacquibim]

@Fickdichechtjetzt - That's exactly what I'm saying, 0.08 to 3 to 112.5 TB is an exponential increase. Duh...

[hippo459]

@Jacquibim it doubles every 2 years so re-do your math.3000+TB

[PixelSnader]

@Jacquibim We could do that, but right now everyone's moving from platters to flash storage. Speed is much more interesting than size, right now.

[Jacquibim]

@PixelSnader - True dat. I honestly can't imagine myself using a 100TB HDD. Then again, 10 years ago, the idea of using 100GB was laughable.

[ThaWiseJester]

@Jacquibim Yeah that was the time before videos were uploaded.

[kurisux]

@Jacquibim In all seriousness, I wouldn't doubt us having 200TB drives as standard in a decade.

[complementamos]

@kurisux cloud storing, unlimited space

[kurisux]

@complementamos Haha, you're funny.

With the way ISP's are on bandwith, or the prices for proper bandwith, the cloud will NEVER be a full data solution for home users. Businesses, yeah, it would work, but in the end all it is is external network storage for them: odds are they would still run their own servers, thus making it their own infrastructure regardless of location.

For someone like me, the cloud is a useless joke of an idea.

[nextstep333]

@Jacquibim In the 80's having a 10-40 MB harddrive was big deal. By the mid 1990's, it was 2 GB.

[SynysterCondom]

I would go back in time and ask him what he feels about 3tb hard drives.

[waddlerobloxxxx]

my 500 GB HDD is too big....

[TheMangaka234]

LOL I have 80 gb HDD today

[jgilbrech]

They need to bring back the chalkboard to TWiT!

[QuickForceHD]

'That much data is almost impossible to backup'

ROFL.

[crownedman104]

HOLY SHIT 80GB!!! IM SELLING MY 1TB DRIVE!!!!

[KingofTheMafia]

i like how in the description it sais they think 80gb is huge in 01, well thats because it was in 01, in 2020, a TB will be small

[TheBlitMaster]

@KingofTheMafia Petabyte is the new Terabyte having less then a quadrillion bytes is so last summer.

[KingofTheMafia]

@TheBlitMaster wow this shit advances fast

[ayoopdog]

Patrick: LEO WHAT DOES THE HARD DISK DRIVE SAY ABOUT THE CAPACITY?

Leo: ITS OVER 80 GB!!!!!!!!!!!

Patrick: WHAT OVER 80 GB?? THERE'S NO WAY

[BrickWoodLG]

This is rediculous, I got a 200 GB HD in my Sony Vaio from '01... THIS VIDEO IS A LIE!

[richardbirch2007]

@BrickWoodLG It was replaced. There is no possible way a laptop had 200GB from 2001.

[BrickWoodLG]

@richardbirch2007 No it wasn't, the laptop hasn't been touched, or it was replaced when I got it in 2001.

[richardbirch2007]

@BrickWoodLG I'm certain you wouldn't have had that amount of storage then. There were no 200GB 2.5" drives available at that time as the tech wasn't available. (By the way I'm not trying to start an argument! :P)

[BrickWoodLG]

@richardbirch2007 Well I got the laptop in really late 2001, a couple months after Windows XP came out, not really sure of the speed, most likely 1.2 ghz P4. But I'm certain it was 200 GB HD, as I'm looking at it right now, maybe it was replaced at some point...? but the model online ssays 80GB 2.5 HD as the stock...

[richardbirch2007]

@BrickWoodLG Maybe someone sneakily replaced it without you knowing ;P But yeah that sounds about right, for that time, must've been top of the line though for that kinda capacity!

[BrickWoodLG]

@richardbirch2007 Yeah I remember it costing around 1200 dollars, and when I went to the sony style store, they were all advertising "The New OS! - Windows XP!" and it ran really well on the laptop.

[richardbirch2007]

@BrickWoodLG Yup, XP was a speed demon even on Pentium 3 machines which were mainstream at the time still. Now with the latest service packs and updates it's slow as heck on them! Back then you could run XP on 128mb RAM and you'd be okay, now you need at least 1GB for XP, even for light web browsing!

[voltron821]

@BrickWoodLG I bought a new dell desktop computer in 2005 and the standard hard drive was 80 gb with an option to upgrade to 160 gb. Laptops had smaller hard drives than desktops and this was in 2005 so that means in 2001, you could not get a desktop and certainly not a laptop with a 200 gb hd. You probably mean it had a 20 gb hard drive because that was a good sized drive for 2001.

[northpaw2000]

Over 80 gb??? IT"S NOT FUCKIN POSSIBLE!!!!!

[HerecomestheCalavera]

Does anybody have a link the video where they link a bunch of hard drives to together to make the first 1TB Drive ever seen.

[dirtylogs]

I have 500GB SATA and 1TB SATA backup drive. .... yeah

[qtprot]

@dirtylogs 500gb main and 2TB x2 sata backups. ;)

[dirtylogs]

@qtprot Nice ;)

[MrNintardo]

@qtprot 4TB 2x2TB raid setup ;)

[qtprot]

@MrNintardo beast

[MrNintardo]

@qtprot Lol

[karlsruheprotestful]

@MrNintardo 7.5TB JBOD 3*2TB + 1.5TB

[QuickForceHD]

@karlsruheprotestful 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD + Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB

[Estrategy002]

"80 is the top!" I wish they would see my 1Tb HDD :D

[mattlifeit]

@Estrategy002 Someone in ten years time is laughing at you.

[emomotorgeek]

Ahahahaha, I have that exact same Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI card.

[Dariuszdavi]

hahaha still IDE

[furydeath]

And 10 year's later we went from 80GB to 2-3 TB.

[MrNintardo]

Haha, they would shit themselves if they saw my 4TB 2x2TB raid setup XD

[mattlifeit]

@MrNintardo And you would shit yourself if you saw what someone's got in eight year's time.

[420timetoburn]

@MrNintardo You missed the point. this was in 2001.

[bseven54]

80 gigs is still enough today for the average user. People who use Emachines,ect.

[nitrox255]

My microsd card says hi xD

[pattyaaron]

I did try the 4x40gb raid, it was awesome, loved it.

[TheLacavera]

these guys keep progress of computers to a slow pace corprate fags with misinformation

[136811]

hoje em dias já tem 2 TB de hd =P imagina os pc de amanhã 4 ZB de hd.

[roflschofel]

I still have a nice 120GB Maxtor from a little after this video. [spoiler]it still works[/spoiler]

[marybob321]

to bad SSD cost so much money today

[visionimagify]

Lmao. IDE is out of date.  No system uses it today.

[MrSpartan1717]

@visionimagify yes you do alot optical drives still are connected by IDE to free SATA ports for HDD but are right it is out of date but still used

[outpostprime]

@visionimagify SCSI is still around tho :p. SCSI/SAS drives are awesome. Got 2 15k rpm fujitsu's in Raid 0.

[friik100]

My damn lappy have 80 gb ... and it's not enought ... : ) Main PC has 500 gb ... and even this aint enought...

[racingisfun]

@friik100 my lappy has 2 500g and a 2tb ext drive and all of it is 75% full =/ sadly this is my main computer

[17R3W]

@maxmanapple

Sure, SSD are newer, but those CF cards are themselves Solid state.

[m620]

I had 40GB in 2001 :)

[fancyshowtech]

lol now u can get 1 and 2 tb harddrives lol how times have changed

[17R3W]

I could be wrong, but wasn't solid state around by 2001. I remember having a small thumbdrive in college (about 2002 or 2003). And I believe early MP3 players used solid state.

I guess they weren't Hard drives at that point, but I think they may have been bootable.

[custom91911]

im gonna have to stack 8 1.5 Tb hard drives to back up one fifteenth of my porn

[MacGyverinSpace]

100 gbs were already almost in stores at this point. Next year, 120. Year after 360.

Household SSD's are just coming to market.

[alexcorrea818]

you can have as much gigs as much as your comp can hold. my comp has 2.5 TBs WWOW THAT IS UNBELIEVABLEEEEE.......

[xkflash]

wow it's weird how leo actually predicted something ahead of its time

[pupnasty]

@xkflash That's not weird.. He's Leo Fucking Laporte... Hell, I bet he knew about blu ray then too.

[Sabohaque]

SSDs.... wow nice prediction.

[ThatGuyInTheBasement]

80?! WOW! Roflmao!

[persevere67]

i am a casual user and i have 4 terabytes

[wsbsteven]

Patrick has hair!

[Thycid]

You can learn more from TechTV in 5 minutes than you can learn from G4 in 5 weeks.

[MikerGTX]

We have SATA now so less worrying XD

[jdcrispe95]

@MikerGTX dont you mean more worrying?

because IDE is more reliable than SATA or SATA-II..

[NuKeula]

wow he is a smart guy hitting SSD on the head

[Kosh800]

@NuKeula No shit. The guy is a god among men. He new solid state was coming so much sooner than most.

[rhrtrr]

also the LARGEST IDE drive is 1TB

[rhrtrr]

any one hear him say 160mb drive?

[AlphaComputing]

and now we have drobos

[pianomancuber91]

80 GB was huge in 2001. 2TB is huge now. In 9 years, don't be surprised if people laugh at that.

[johnblack627]

I think Leo inspired Glenn Beck with that chalkboard. =D

[psp3602]

at 2:12 he says MB instead of GB

[PRODVDi]

I think 80GB is minimal in 2010

[hound4680]

@PRODVDi

yeah 80gb is minimal in 2010... we talking about music players right... i made a funny.

[loll69]

Next year.... 4TB HDDs and 1TB MLC SSD...

[alterbr33d]

2:14 blooper he said 160MB

[dtregenza]

haha i love the chalk board

[kgonepostl]

Ahhh the days............and the days before those.............and the days before those..........

"You will never need more than a 20 megabyte drive for the rest of your life"

[mattrospecs]

wish solid state ram actually made some headway

[wanageeska]

2+ TB via 4x 740GB drives via raid 0 using a caldigit raid in a mac pro. 350mb.sec on a bad day. Backed up to a sans digital mobilstor dual enclosure set to raid 1, so dual simultaneous back up. 2TB drive in second optical bay serves a Time Machine back up. Photos in Adobe Lightroom fly like they were already cached. This replaced a dual 800 G4 powerback with dual ide raid.. literally a 10X increase in drive throughput alone. This is the machine I wanted back in 2001 ;P

[kydoes]

It would be badass, only problem is the Mac part...

[gamerjason]

But Mac Pros didn't exist back then...?

[JumboshrmpXS]

Is leo wearing scrubs?

[cakk15]

Man leo really had the right idea when he was thinking of SSDs

[alterbr33d]

He was only 7 years or so off with the SSDs.

[OhNoNotMyPenis]

@alterbr33d

sorta, but the standard platter based HDD is still the main used.

SSD probly wont take over for a long time now

[TheAstro30]

@alterbr33d mhm

[nicolajkl]

@alterbr33d Flash memory was really expensive back then

[acecarlo11]

@cakk15 leo laporte is clearly a geek legend

[Clandestine123]

bahaha im rockin a terabyte..

oh technology, how i love thee...

[Mogliz0rz]

1.4TB here. Woooooooooooooop.

[cpt1chris]

forget teeny hard drives... why are they using a blackboard? D: technology?

[javixm]

I'd say we're 5 years away from laptops with SSD standard.

When I say laptops... I really mean Macs :p

[malcommerriweather]

And when I say Man... I really mean overpriced crap boxes.

[SailorCire]

80GB is more then you need. run all of your computing in run level 3. Anything more then that ,for safety, should be backed up on hard media...

[Righty736]

I have no need for anything larger on 80GB on my PCs. Everything is kept on my home server and then backed up from there. Works GREAT and I have all of my files in one central location.

[SailorCire]

rsync?

[EliasLockert]

right now i have 2.5 TB :D

[godscuttingyoudown]

ive got a freind that has 6 TB with 4TB full he is worring about the same thing

[imatrader1]

haha 80...thats nothing now lol...you can look anywhere and the smallest i see is like 250...

[yodasoda719]

my dads computer has 1.5 terabytes...

[SSchevyLT1]

i had a 60gb in 2001 :)

[DEIx15x8]

So Leo was 7 years late on the Flash thing.

[hockydoug]

lol 80 gigs.

we'll be LOLing at 80TBs soon.

[SubaruXT6]

Hard Drives Rule !!

Do that to today's 1.5TB Drives !

wee 6 TB ! 6,000 GB

[alkoed]

my laptop is only 40GB ='(

[kilterdude]

I miss the chalkboard

[user19191]

I miss Leo Laporte and gang on TechTV.

[wakka922201]

Now we have SSDs. Leo was just a few years off.

[Cimlite]

Yeah, but harddrives still "have legs" as leo put it. The drives just keep getting bigger and bigger, not to mention extremly cheap in comparision.

It will still be quite a while before everything is SSD.

[DannyMinick]

Zomg 80 Gigs!?

Mine is 320GB lol. And soon this will be small.

[13Knives1]

holy shit an 80GB hard drive!!!! my laptop has 250GB and I haven't upgraded it yet...

[JABUUTY671]

Haha now TB's are small.

[samjtm]

exactly, and before you would never ever have thought that you would need atleast half a GB to install an OS, let along the 1GB to run it, and 2GB to use it nicely. and now you can get 1GB memory sticks from companys for free as advertising. the way things have changed....

[tsolorio3001]

This brings back memories. I miss the TSS.

BTW, just bought a 500GB for my laptop because of the virtual machines I run.

[mattimassacre]

Leo was only 8 years off. Solid state is starting to get bigger as it gets smaller.

[evalastone]

Sooo, Tiny. SOO DAMN TINY. My windows disk is a 300, my linux drive is 80, and of course my storage drive is 1TB. Sooo small, i can't beleive I thought that was huge.

[Chemical1203]

I have 6 tb in my file server and it is fucking not enough for me.

[desertman123]

holy shit do you have all the music in the world recorded at 480kbps?

[Chemical1203]

lol nah just alot of pron, music, videos and games

[URYNOME]

I have 3 terabytes and I need more :( I am a pack rat and wont delete any videos.

[can622]

I have to say... WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU! I'm doing fine with 65GB and I'm a gamer...

[URYNOME]

I download every tv show I can think of and never delete them, all the cartoons I use to watch as a kid etc.

[SoloHero]

What about burning your videos on a DVD, then you can free-up some space.

[URYNOME]

I use to do that but then I filled up my big dvd binder and dvds were getting scratched and taking up lots of space....

[Daggett1122]

65GB? My games folder alone is ~170GB (~50 games)... 1.25TB is overall sufficient for me.

I like downloading entire TV series also. I eventually burn them off, it takes up to 7 DVD's per series. I use paper CD sleeves, much better (cheaper) than binders.

[panthrfan1]

I have got a 80gb internal + a 500gb external

[alphamone]

other way around for me.

500 internal, 80 external. (exteral is an older one)

[moderndaechristine]

HA! o things change sooo fast

[Drakoman07]

that was 2001? God, Half-life must've been HUGE!

[jimtindell]

1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte

[Thycid]

i have a 64gb flash drive lol

[RetroVGamer]

My current hard drive is 650 gigabytes lol. They have 11.1 terabyte hard drives. lol.

[ashthepokemonmaster]

I got (well I found) a 1 gigabyte hard drive and its got 650 mb of free memory left lol

[ArterialX]

i got 5 terra.. and 2,5 terra is full.. 1 terrabyte= 1000 gigabyte = 10 000 mb

[Lighthammer18]

haha fail xD it's 1000000 mb xD

[evane1989]

This show was amazing!

[pokemonhacker25]

is 14.1 gigabytes more than or less than 12.4 megabytes?

[MeZmErIzEtheMiNd]

it takes 1000 megabytes to make 1 gigabyte

[TABUSINTACBOY]

haha

[Lightingbolt008]

I just use my 250GB built in hard drive and is all I need for now

[pacmanghostx]

80 GB was huge in 2001.

It's amazing how in nine short years single drives went from a top capacity of 80 GB to 1536 GB (1.5 TB).

Also, if you're laptop had 15-20 GB in 2001, that was huge too.

[moose4computers]

lol... in 2001 my laptop had a 8GB HDD (in 2 partitions no less), and an 800 MHz Duron. It's a great little print server now! Yay for old Sony VAIOs.

[KubaHeist]

WOW 80 gb!!!!!!!!!!

[ilikefriedfood]

80gb dude terabytes