In a few short months it’s going to be 2009, and a ton of stuff has changed in the world of computing over the past almost-ten years. Some of the modern advancements have proven to be a notable improvement while others still produce the same crapola they did nearly ten years ago.

In this installment we’ll be taking a look at fixed disk drives (which you know as the hard disk drive or just hard drive).

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In 1999 a “really big” hard drive (in reference to how much data capacity it could hold) was 20GB. An HDD of that size was prohibitively expensive and most people didn’t have anything that large. Remember, this was a few years before Microsoft Windows XP came into existence so most people used a 1GB and 2GB drive for a variety of reasons.

The first reason was volume limitations.

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