Moore's Law is my friend...
Jun. 26th, 2008 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeur... including its variants for other dimensions of computing. In this case, storage.
The CD of MP3s I'm currently burning is the one that will break the camel's back. For a long time now, I've been gradually ripping our CD collection to MP3, to listen to it on the iPod. This was a very slow process previously, but now that I'm working less than ten feet from the CD collection it's accelerated a lot -- I'm rating and ripping around four discs a day.
Last week I synch'ed the iPod, and realized that it was finally at capacity: there isn't room for another tranche of music. So![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
msmemory got me, for a birthday present, a new iPod, which arrived yesterday. It's not a Touch, it's not an iPhone, and it's not a teeny-weeny Nano -- indeed, it looks just like my old iPod, except that the new one is black. But the new one has a preposterously huge 160 Gig hard drive in it: enough to hold our entire CD collection, plus a few movies should they strike my fancy.
Happiness is the right tool for the job -- this thing should have enough capacity to keep me for years. But a part of me is kind of boggled, when I think back to the boat-anchor-sized 5 Meg drive I started college with, and compare it with this pocket-sized gargantua...
The CD of MP3s I'm currently burning is the one that will break the camel's back. For a long time now, I've been gradually ripping our CD collection to MP3, to listen to it on the iPod. This was a very slow process previously, but now that I'm working less than ten feet from the CD collection it's accelerated a lot -- I'm rating and ripping around four discs a day.
Last week I synch'ed the iPod, and realized that it was finally at capacity: there isn't room for another tranche of music. So
msmemory got me, for a birthday present, a new iPod, which arrived yesterday. It's not a Touch, it's not an iPhone, and it's not a teeny-weeny Nano -- indeed, it looks just like my old iPod, except that the new one is black. But the new one has a preposterously huge 160 Gig hard drive in it: enough to hold our entire CD collection, plus a few movies should they strike my fancy.Happiness is the right tool for the job -- this thing should have enough capacity to keep me for years. But a part of me is kind of boggled, when I think back to the boat-anchor-sized 5 Meg drive I started college with, and compare it with this pocket-sized gargantua...