I've just done a full backup of the website, and for the first time we've exceeded 2GB of data (2.351GB to be exact). I thought it was taking a long time, even with a 10Mbs broadband connection!

So for anyone that wants to download everything we have online, now you know how much stuff your going to have to grab!!

Well Hi PD's...Eddy....in OZ due to the distance,,,,I have just installed a Western Digital 1TB external backup drive ...seems simple .....possiby like the owner/driver 

Oh! thats where it went.

I threw that away into the wheelie bin a few weeks ago 

I used to service the Maxtor cleanroom production line in the UK many years ago.

A big full height one was 470MB unformatted capacity, and in those days we thought no-one would ever be able to fill it, (and a price of about £1500, about the same sort of price as a car)
I was also involved in the development of the worlds first 3 1/2" hard drive (the forerunner of what you are fitting now), 53MB unformatted with 18ms access time.
They've come a long way in twenty odd years.
Not even a CD's worth now.

John

I'm showing my age now, but I started in computers way before IBM ever produced the first PC that we all now use....

I remember using CP/M machines which had a massize 512Kb of memory, 160Kb 5.25" floppy disks, and 5Mb of hard drive space - VERY advanced at the time, but now it just sounds silly.... I recall changing from CP/M to MsDos and it took an age to get used to silly changes, even though MsDOS was derived from CP/M. For example, the "Copy" command was reversed - Instead of Copy <to> <from> as you did in CP/M, allof a sudden it became Copy <from> <to>..... Way before graphical interfaces had even been thought of!!

Then came the multitude of Hard drive format - we had MFM, RLL, ESDI, SCSI etc etc.... I remember buying two 330Mb ESDI hard drives which cost me almost £1500!! And that was 20 years ago!

Same thing happend with modems, my first was a split baud rate 300/75bps unit - Yes BITS per second, not MEGABITS! Eventually the 14K4 modem came out and I spent £800 buying one - It was obsolete within 6 months!

If I'd saved all the money I've spent on computers over the years I could have bought a house!!! And no, I'm NOT kidding!