Terabytes

I remember (back when I was a youngster) when we ordered two 9-gigabyte drives for our first non-linear edit system. It cost thousands of dollars. Back then if you would have asked me about a terabyte, I probably would have thought you were talking about some kind of dinosaur.

Fast forward to 2007. Our 500 Gig graphics drive was running out of room, so we just ordered a terabyte drive. And we paid much less than we did for that 9 gig drive ten years ago. Now we have over 4 terabytes of space on our two edit systems. Of course, that fills up quickly with uncompressed video.

But not to worry, we still have the original video on tape. Ah, videotape. That’s what we’ll be waxing nostalgic about in another 10 years.