ipse dixit

You need to buy a new computer.

vlastan3

All my 3 laptops running SSD.

My desktop also has 3 SSDs and a couple of hard disks. You get caught in the word “hard disk” by mistake so I modified the wording to SSD to be specific!

aggie57

My start in IT back in the late 70's involved a lot of mainframe disk drives, some removable but most not and referred to as DASD - Direct Access Storage Devices. The removable ones maxed out as I recall around 200mb, IBM 3330's and maybe 3340's. Later on we had 3380's which ran to over 1gb per disk, 2 disks per box and in a string attached to the CPU via those think grey channel cables. The biggest buzz about them was doing a power on at a data center with rows of these things, the sequenced power up was a joy to behold - and necessary due to the current they'd draw on power up. If you've never heard it, it's a bit like a multi-engine jet aircraft starting up, first one string unit by unit, then the next string and so on. For a while I designed and built data centers, understanding how these units worked was both necessary and interesting.

Now of course we carry way more storage around in our pockets, and folks like Apple, Google, and Microsoft will happily store your data for you in some distant data center all sent down wirelessly to you as and when needed. Hell, even minor app's updated on your phone can involved a couple of hundred of megabytes. Anyway, time moves on and what was cutting edge only a few years back is now old hat and so it seems it is with 'juke boxes' in our cars.

Captain Average

There was a time when "hard drive" referred to a track day