Our internal hard drive has been at capacity for a while now and our external backup hard drive didn't have a whole lot to spare either. Recently whenever I wanted to load new photos and videos, I had to delete something...usually an old game I was no longer playing. The only problem, I was running out of unused stuff to delete. So, I've been in the market for some external drives for a while and after doing some research and waiting for the right sale, I picked up a pair of Western Digital My Book Premium 400GB hard drives. I figured they were a pretty good deal at $0.50 a gigabyte and, as you can see, they have a beautiful form factor.

I'm incredibly paranoid about deleting our treasured photographs and videos but I've placed copies of everything on DVD and on each of the new hard drives (triple redundant), so everything should be safe. We now have plenty of space on our internal drive and over a terabyte of space externally.

Interestingly, in 1990 I purchased an 80MB external hard drive for about $1000. Just one of our new hard drives has 5,000 times the storage capacity, at 1/5 the cost and 1/2 the physical space.