Every hard disk becomes too small

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The line that every hard disk becomes too small if one waits long enough takes Dr. Dave back to IBM AT computers with 20-megabyte Seagate drives. Geeks with half-full 10-megabyte drives asked who could possibly need so much space, much as a 20-terabyte drive would have sounded extravagant in 2008.

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