[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Well it sure has advanced in capability though I'm not so sure about price, I did spend a whole 2-3 months' salary on it :P

Miniaturization has been incredible though. An 80GB MP3 player from 10 years ago:
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/50/p1010855w.jpg
And a 128GB one today:
http://2.imimg.com/data2/KC/SM/MY-25...le-250x250.jpg

I think the 2000's were probably the heyday of hard drive technology though, since about 2010 or so we've seen far less progress

Maxing out on bit density per platter. SSDs are where it's at now.