I went to Fry's on Tuesday and made a couple purchases. This digital video kick, along with transferring all my CDs to mp3, is taking its toll on my G4's 36gig hard drive. Every four minutes of raw digital video takes a whopping gigabyte, so doing any significant video work gets hairy, and a couple days ago I experienced some strange errors which turned out to be because my disk was entirely full.

That won't be a problem again for a while now, though. I got me a 120 gigabyte drive for $245. That's enough for eight hours of raw digital video, 80 days of solid MP3s, or some combination thereof.

It wasn't so long ago that a single gigabyte drive cost $800. Heck, back when I was a kid a 5 meg Tecmar drive was $699 and a meg of RAM set you back $140.