80 gigabytes!

[@bluesteelbass]

Why this was recommended 16 years later, who knows. Thank you algorithm!

[@Blast66666]

Did no one notice that he stated that his prediction was that everything was going to be moving towards solid state storage? So however many years before 2001, that was what Leo was forecasting the HDD industry to shift towards. He was maybe about 7 years too early, but here in 2014, half of the industry are SSD's, while HDD are slowly fading away into Storage Only drives. Even Hybrid drives are starting to replace HDD's. I don't know, but I think that Leo called it there.

[@LetumComplexo]

It was known SSD would replace HDD for a while before this. It was just too expensive and we didn't have the technology to build them very big.

[@randispoling]

SSDs were already around then, but very rarely used. I worked in n Electronics recycle shop and found SSDs that were used in older laptops with IDE... I was like, lolwat?!

[@drebone1986]

I always watched this channel because it was a lot of research and rumblings going on in the industry that TechTV was privileged to ahead of most thanks to them being so close to Silicon Valley and it was booming at the time only we had no idea how big that Valley would become as far as nearly world dominance in tech, one thing I learned back then is that it was never a prediction, it was always announced in some form big or small, the problem of why it takes so long is mostly perfecting the technique

[@NotApplicable555]

Here it is 2022 and no one buys HDDs

[@macshune]

@@NotApplicable555 - Here it is in 2023 and the 150TB in my NAS disagrees

[@23v0lv32]

Man this was SUCH a great show back in the day!!!

[@hool10]

We have 120GB on on smart phones now. 15 years later...

[@ChrisBenard]

1 TB now. 7 years after your comment.

[@Yourmanjeff]

they are still around, doing similar things, they seem much happier. Because the station dropped them, they (and their coworkers) were able to be part of the beginning of some great things we see day to day online. They've had big influences on "Net"casting, iTV, social media, and aggregation sites to name a few. As sad as it was to lose them back then, i think we all benefited greatly from it.

[@notanundercovercop8851]

So great to see some of this classic Screen Savers on here. We need more of this. LOTS and LOTS more of this.

[@furydeath]

And 10 year's later we went from 80GB to 2-3 TB.

[@17R3W]

@maxmanapple Sure, SSD are newer, but those CF cards are themselves Solid state.

[@chortlesinthecorner]

With a coupon I went to a Micro Center and received a 32GB thumb drive and 32GB micro SD card for free two weeks ago... Amazing how far we've come.

[@cartergamegeek]

I watch this now as i use an 8TB drive for KZbin LP videos. How times have changed.

[@dharvell]

"80 GB??? That's out of control!!!"

[@FBHSswimmer2006]

It's very cool to watch these old clips of The Screen Savers and think how far we have come since it was originally shot. I got a Synology NAS with 2 3 TB Ironwolf NAS SATA HDDs running in RAID 1. I don't think there were any drives back in those days that was 1 TB, let alone 3 on one single drive. Maybe there were on SCSI in a datacenter. HHDs are still a good option as storage drives in terms of price to performance to amount of storage. Leo was just ahead of the time when SSDs would take over the world of computing. Now we got M.2 drives that can run on either the SATA or PCIe bus and don't require a bay in the system.

[@ayoopdog]

Patrick: LEO WHAT DOES THE HARD DISK DRIVE SAY ABOUT THE CAPACITY? Leo: ITS OVER 80 GB!!!!!!!!!!! Patrick: WHAT OVER 80 GB?? THERE'S NO WAY

[@mattimassacre]

Leo was only 8 years off. Solid state is starting to get bigger as it gets smaller.

[@romefox]

Awesome foresight by Leo, too bad SSD has not yet replaced HDD due to high prices!

[@patd4u2]

I bought a Commodore 386sx back in 1990 or 91 that had a 52 mb hard drive and I thought that was unbelievable and it had 2 megabytes of RAM.

[@RhinoXpress]

I remember my friend buying a 60gb drive back then and was like wow you'll never run out of space. Then again software was way less demanding on space back then, than it is now almost 20 years later.

[@outpostprime]

@visionimagify SCSI is still around tho :p. SCSI/SAS drives are awesome. Got 2 15k rpm fujitsu's in Raid 0.

[@nextstep333]

@Jacquibim In the 80's having a 10-40 MB harddrive was big deal. By the mid 1990's, it was 2 GB.

[@DeathUnlimited99]

@visionimagify yes you do alot optical drives still are connected by IDE to free SATA ports for HDD but are right it is out of date but still used

[@notanundercovercop8851]

Patrick's reaction makes me laugh every time, "30 GB's!? That's out of control!"

[@pianomancuber91]

80 GB was huge in 2001. 2TB is huge now. In 9 years, don't be surprised if people laugh at that.

[@DemiGodX]

80 gigs!? Great Scott

[@SilentCheechGaming1991]

i like how in the description it sais they think 80gb is huge in 01, well thats because it was in 01, in 2020, a TB will be small

[@irdmoose]

lol... in 2001 my laptop had a 8GB HDD (in 2 partitions no less), and an 800 MHz Duron. It's a great little print server now! Yay for old Sony VAIOs.

[@MacGyverinSpace]

100 gbs were already almost in stores at this point. Next year, 120. Year after 360. Household SSD's are just coming to market.

[@MrROTD]

my Amiga had 40 mb, it was my first hd but I won't be surprised if technology surprises us again and again. I remember in 94 The video editing suite we had could store 8 gigs, that was a big box full of drives :D

[@123stephenno]

80 gigs is impressive today, immagine how impressive it was back THEN !

[@simonpetrus1981]

Those were the good old days.

[@cakk15]

Man leo really had the right idea when he was thinking of SSDs

[@17R3W]

I could be wrong, but wasn't solid state around by 2001. I remember having a small thumbdrive in college (about 2002 or 2003). And I believe early MP3 players used solid state. I guess they weren't Hard drives at that point, but I think they may have been bootable.

[@qtprot]

@dirtylogs 500gb main and 2TB x2 sata backups. ;)

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

Does anybody have a link the video where they link a bunch of hard drives to together to make the first 1TB Drive ever seen.

[@badmemory]

Gotta admit Leo was prescient about solid stage storage as in what we have now in gigabyte flash drives. And sadly I too miss ZDTV/TechTV. At least there's Digital Life TV with Patrick Norton...not as much fun but informative.

[@nicolajkl]

@alterbr33d Flash memory was really expensive back then

[@Mediabytes]

I use to do that but then I filled up my big dvd binder and dvds were getting scratched and taking up lots of space....

[@lordbalron]

We're getting SSDs now. I miss TechTV.

[@jazzman92478]

In 2022, 4 and 6 Terabyte storage drives available off the shelf at your computer store......

[@PixelSnader]

@Jacquibim We could do that, but right now everyone's moving from platters to flash storage. Speed is much more interesting than size, right now.

[@Righty736]

I have no need for anything larger on 80GB on my PCs. Everything is kept on my home server and then backed up from there. Works GREAT and I have all of my files in one central location.

[@ThaWiseJester]

@Jacquibim Yeah that was the time before videos were uploaded.

[@gunnernaut]

I loved TechTV. Loved it.

[@richardbirch2007]

@BrickWoodLG Yup, XP was a speed demon even on Pentium 3 machines which were mainstream at the time still. Now with the latest service packs and updates it's slow as heck on them! Back then you could run XP on 128mb RAM and you'd be okay, now you need at least 1GB for XP, even for light web browsing!

[@czarpeppers6250]

And now I have a 4tb drive.

[@kgonepostl]

Ahhh the days............and the days before those.............and the days before those.......... "You will never need more than a 20 megabyte drive for the rest of your life"

[@MrHunkalicious]

80GB --- I remember jizzing when those came out !!

[@richardbirch2007]

@BrickWoodLG It was replaced. There is no possible way a laptop had 200GB from 2001.

[@zRev1983]

we were all saying the same about 1tb not too long ago...

[@Kosh800]

@NuKeula No shit. The guy is a god among men. He new solid state was coming so much sooner than most.

[@alterbr33d]

He was only 7 years or so off with the SSDs.

[@KelvinW344]

I wonder how I ever could use a computer without an SSD as the system disk...

[@onionofdeath]

Yeah, I remember when ONE GB was alot. When games came on floppies, and CD Burners were luxury. Windows 3.11 i could go on and on...

[@Thycid]

You can learn more from TechTV in 5 minutes than you can learn from G4 in 5 weeks.

[@Fickdichechtjetzt]

@Jacquibim no...technology grows exponentially...so its more like 100 peta or exabyte in 2021...well more like 2031 but still

[@SRNF]

@Jacquibim i wouldnt be surprised if some nerd already has 100 tb via external hds.

[@kydoes]

It would be badass, only problem is the Mac part...

[@Kosh800]

My first HDD was 100 MB in my 486-66. Before that it was just the big ass floppy disks ... the ones that were actually floppy. =P

[@TopShoyu]

My 2000 laptop had only 60 gb. I think whoever sent that email was jealous of me.

[@zRev1983]

ya, i'd say that's below average of the common user. it just depends on what you really do. media is being incorperated into almost everything and now the standards for media is being raised causing the need for exponentially increasing data storage. back in the day data was mostly comprised of text and instructions (code). i think it would be safe to say at least 90% of any giving data anywhere is media whether it's sound or images.

[@marsmech]

Man i remember when i got a 80gb hard drive i thought i'd never be able to fill that. now i got a 1TB USB Flash Drive 3.0 that i bought for 30$ sitting right next to me.

[@richardbirch2007]

@BrickWoodLG Maybe someone sneakily replaced it without you knowing ;P But yeah that sounds about right, for that time, must've been top of the line though for that kinda capacity!

[@Mediabytes]

I download every tv show I can think of and never delete them, all the cartoons I use to watch as a kid etc.

[@AlphaComputing]

and now we have drobos

[@shadybrain3424]

@hornedragon petabyte? sounds like it should be court ordered to go around the neighborhood and introduce itself. :p

[@Cimlite]

Yeah, but harddrives still "have legs" as leo put it. The drives just keep getting bigger and bigger, not to mention extremly cheap in comparision. It will still be quite a while before everything is SSD.

[@exodous02]

Man, it is amazing that they got rid of these guys that actually knew what they were talking about and replaced them with the pre-teens in 'Attack of the Show' which is a stupid name also.

[@DeFazioNJ]

80 GB was huge in 2001. It's amazing how in nine short years single drives went from a top capacity of 80 GB to 1536 GB (1.5 TB). Also, if you're laptop had 15-20 GB in 2001, that was huge too.

[@airyanawaejah2323]

Now is like 14TB In a Single Computer.

[@richardbirch2007]

@BrickWoodLG I'm certain you wouldn't have had that amount of storage then. There were no 200GB 2.5" drives available at that time as the tech wasn't available. (By the way I'm not trying to start an argument! :P)

[@Thycid]

Larger than 80gb? Someday maybe, but we won't live to see it.

[@OrionsAngel]

My current hard drive is 650 gigabytes lol. They have 11.1 terabyte hard drives. lol.

[@shawnyoung5960]

Wonder if he would have believed then someone in 2017 could have a 4TB Hard Drive in a laptop with a 10TB external for storage and a 512GB flash card (SD card) for your camera.

[@scaper8]

Laporte and Norton knew their shit forward and backward (most everybody as TechTV did, really) but I have to think that even they, if they were able to just jump from 2001 to 2017 would be a bit blown away. When you're in the middle of it and watching it happen, it's just progress. Company A is able to double this memory. Company B fits there hard drive into a smaller case. Company C ekes out more power. Etc. But to see it all at once (or in retrospect, as we are) is jarring. So all that said, I'd bet that if you sat him down and let him think about it for a few minutes, maybe walk him through some of the more out-of-left-field advancements made, he'd wouldn't doubt it for a second. Still cool to think about though.

[@anthonycee29]

Shawn Young lol

[@JasonRogersOnline]

Thanks for the cool videos!

[@loadingscreens]

Holy shit. Technology tv presenters who actually KNOW what they're talking about. WHAAAA

[@MrHunkalicious]

I heard 1 TB SSD will be around $100 soon

[@apriswajaya]

man i only got one solution for this problem, cd burner - i remember i stacked like alot of cd's jus to back up my files, now i got a 160 gig external hard drive for back up storage and wow i saved alot of space

[@z00h]

80 gig hdd, good luck finding one under 1000 bucks at the moment (Nov 2011)

[@_justinsane]

Man I miss ZDTV/TechTV.

[@13Knives1]

holy shit an 80GB hard drive!!!! my laptop has 250GB and I haven't upgraded it yet...

[@mpua2424]

I have a just under a terabyte of storage right now...

[@hippo459]

@Jacquibim it doubles every 2 years so re-do your math.3000+TB

[@luminous6969]

80 gigs is out of control?

[@batterez]

I wish I could go back to the '80s and release 2008 computers. I would blow Mac out of the water.

[@Zeaed]

What do you need 80gb for?

[@Drakoman07]

that was 2001? God, Half-life must've been HUGE!

[@philipross8574]

now there is one trill. bytes

[@alphamone]

other way around for me. 500 internal, 80 external. (exteral is an older one)

[@NuKeula]

wow he is a smart guy hitting SSD on the head

[@andrewcarden74]

we do things differently here in 2012 Leo! lol

[@azmegladon]

I miss Leo from back then, lol, too bad he is on the Mac payroll now, oops, was isupposed to let that out?

[@acecarlo11]

@cakk15 leo laporte is clearly a geek legend

[@mikeoscarradio]

Patrick has hair!

[@davewelike]

Historical

[@nooberrific]

2012 and hdd is still not dead lol

[@HDFilms123]

@z00h My cousin has 6 20-40 GB old old harddrives :D

[@batterez]

I'm sure the CIA would be knocking on my door though.

[@Lightningbolt008]

I just use my 250GB built in hard drive and is all I need for now

[@sparkyblaster]

raid. yeah very practical lol. if you doing a file server with a xeon

[@fredo69]

You would blow the world out of the water.

[@onionofdeath]

...Before the Internet and cell phones

[@PetePuebla]

Hard drives? What are those? Everything is in the cloud nowadays.