Hard Drives: Old(1994) vs New (2012)

This is a quick post. Somewhere this year (2012) i got myself a neat 2TB harddrive (model WD20EFRX ) for my NAS (Network Attached Storage) and decided to take my 1994 261,30 MB hard drive (model ST3290A ) out of the shelf just to visually compare them.

Thats it boys and gals! On the left we have a 261MB hard drive and on the right a 2TB hard drive. Thats not even GigaBytes but MegaBytes!! Mind you that 1GB is 1024MB and the same logic goes for TB to GB.
So the hard drive on the left has about 0.01% of the storage capacity of the hard drive on the right.

We've come so far...

 A view of the back of both hard drives.



See you again in 18 years, HardDrive technology!
To be honest in 18 years i bet mechanical hard drives will be history in the desktop computer\laptop plataform and SSD will be the prefered way to storage our data.
Prove me wrong future readers!