"Even with disk-doubling and sophisticated data-compression technologies, sooner or later we all simply run out of real estate. Fortunately, hard drive tehcnology has made enormous progress in the last three years. Ceramic platters, multiple heads, smarter caching systems, and a host of other technologies have made hard drives smaller, more durable, and fast than ever. In today's market, a 500MB drive is a simple, low-cost upgrade, and you can take your pick of fast 1GB drives for less than $1,000."
- PC Computing, April 1994, but eight years before the market could offer an 80GB drive for $100. [And it's gotten even better since early 2003!]