Back about early to mid 90's I had a big SCSI system with a total of 1 T HD space (which was huge then) . I did a lot of downloading siftware from a news server using a robot. SCSI drives were expensive then.
Now I have about 1 T total with half as an expernal drive. I put all the pics , movies etc external and just use the internal drives for day to day. I also unplug one drive as a Master backup that I can just clone over when I get into deep crap.
Anyway , I bet all my files only total about 100G now and if you take out the full length motion pictures I bet its less than 30 G. I have to laugh at myself now having easy Terabyte capability now and having almost no use compared to 15 years ago when I paid a fortune to have that same space and used up every bit of it. Funny how things go. I think one big contributor was when @home network went belly up and cox had to use their own servers. Download rates from news servers was cut by more than a factor of 10. What I could do in an hour or 2 now takes all day and night. I always figured those things would improve over time but in fact that aspect has gone the other way.
BTW , SBNews is a great robot for downloading off the news servers. Very easy to use , very low price and I think 30 day free trial to test it. You can mask files , load handreds of user groups for download at one time , you can run about 5 downloads at once limited by your ISP not the program. You can dupe check , etc , etc.
Sorry for the tangent but I freaked when I read Raven had just 40 Gig.
