What is the smallest and largest single HDs you own?

[v85rawdeal]

Looking back, the smallest Hard drive I had was my 40MB System 2000 for my Amiga A500 (I still have the photocopy of the hard drive defect criteria sheet - dated 08 November 1988, inspected by Miniscribe).

And the largest is the 1TB i have in the new computer system.

[Khephren]

Still have my original 20mb 2.5" HDD that I bought second hand for my A1200. I could not believe what a change having one made! Had my whole OS, DPaint, Brilliance, Imagine, wordsworth, A couple of games and deliplayer installed. Everything powerpacked to make more room

[Harrison]

I also remember how amazed I was at the difference a HDD made to my A1200. I hadn't realised quite how much it would be before I owned one, but once I did there was no going back. The speed of booting into Workbench and loading software blew me away. And no more disk swapping or waiting minutes for something to load was great at the time.

Before the Amiga I had an Atari ST and looked at the HDs you could get for them. At the time they were huge boxed the size of a mega ST that sat under your monitor and provided 10MB or 20MB of storage space. They didn't make a whole lot of sense on the ST due to its very limited GEM desktop that could not really be customised, so I couldn't see the point. HDs on the ST make more sense now, with newer TOS and GEM versions being more customisable, and newer software taking advantage, plus the custom OSs on offer, but back in the day it wasn't so.

[Stephen Coates]

My biggest HD is now a 500GB SATA drive.

Smallest is still the 50MB Quantum drive for the A500. Even in 2006 when I got it (second hand), it was really nice to have everything running off one fast HD.

[Harrison]

It is hard to imagine we once used computers without harddrives, with the need to load each program separately as we needed them. Productivity was really hampered badly before they became affordable, however the Amiga did combat this to some extent with its ability to multitasking allowing more than one program to be in memory and running side by side at the same time. Still highlights just how innovative it was.

[J T]

My biggest is a 2TB samsung ecogreen which I was using for media streaming, but then I had to have the big PC switched on. So I bought a 1TB NAS, which is probably the neatest.

Smallest - the Revo only has a 160GB HDD but it's only going to have the OS and a few programs installed, with probably very little actual data.

Other than that... a 20GB ipod or my wife's 5GB Zen mini.