2 Terabyte Fantom External Drive - More Memory Than God Needs?

FD G-Force GF2000EU Hard Drive - GF2000EU - Buy.com.  It is getting to be a tradition. When I bought my first ten Megabyte drive in the Eighties for over $900, I heard someone say "This is more memory than God needs". Each time I have increased storage memory since, I have smiled. Last time, last year, I got a 500 Gigabyte portable drive for $159 at a local BestBuy store. That's five million megabytes. Today, you can get this Fantom 2 Terabyte drive for $139.  There is a $20 rebate mail-in required; but, I'm not going to quibble over $20. That's twenty million megabytes. How much memory does God need anyway?

Comments

[FJ Gruder]

And if you use Bing.com's shopping site, there is 4-7% cash rebate in addition to the mail in rebate.

[Don]

A gigabyte is a thousand megabytes,* so this capacity is now up to two billion bytes -- not twenty billion. (If you want to think about bits, it would be up to 16 billion bits.)

* I'm of course glossing over the question of whether the drive makers are talking about decimal-based 1000 or binary-based 1024.

[rickgeorges]

As Carl Sagan would say, whatever. "Billions and Billions" of bits of data. I WAS an English major, after all. :-)
Rick