12 years ago, if somebody asked me which was a must-to-have device for my Mac, I would have answered that it was my magneto-optical drive from SONY. Plug-in disk capacity was only 128 MB. But it was large enough those days, considering that I initially started out with a 30 MB Super Mac external hard disk drive connected to 2MB RAM Mac Plus in 1991.
Things have changed over years. Now, we are talking about hundreds of GB of capacity. Hard disk capacity has increased nearly 1,000 times over the past 10 years. Continue reading

