Not only does it have great performance, but the price isn't bad at $399.

A flashback to the 1990's and I remembered how I was excited having my first HDD.

It was 1992 I think and my computer was a brand new Amiga 1200. It had a 85 MB hard drive. I remember I thought "Wow, how can a man fill a 85 MB drive?"

Now I know very well, with even that terrabyte HDD we'll run out of disc space.

You want flashbacks....I remeber when the total memory of a personal computer was measured in kilobytes as in 64K....

When I got my first computer the salesman told me that 40MB was a luxury and I would NEVER need more than 20MB.

Hah... I have you both beat. I started when there was no such thing as consumer hard drives. My first computer had a cassette drive, then I moved up to a single sided floppy drive and onto a double sided. When hard drives first became consumer oriented, I had a whopping 5 Meg drive and I thought it would last forever.

As for this drive... that is a LOT of data to rely on one drive to hold. So either RAID or have a good backup plan.

This boggles my little pea brain.

Could it possibly be because this was my first computer?http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html

yes!

We still have our Texas Instruments 99/4A complete with a boxful of cartridge tapes -. It still works as far as I know. This was the 'Big Thang" until the Commador 64 came out.

I'm researching buying a new pc at this moment. Going to make a buy within a week and I saw a terrabyte HD offered at CompUSA.
I'm thinking of going external 500G hd to supplement a 320G and a 160G internal. 2G ram and about a 2.8 - 3.0 processor.
My biggest stumbler is I don't trust Vista.

Skwirli, I know there is a lot of bad stuff going around about vista, but I really like it so far. It has it's problems as every new operating system does, but overall I think it's really good. I would go with it and I'm sure within a few months ms will have all the major issues worked out. Until then, I'm sure it won't make your computer un-usable.

I wanted to like Vista, I really did. The interface looks nice, etc. but even with a machine that has nothing less than a year old in it, I still have large issues. It bluescreens several times a day, will not run several apps I can't live without. Several video editors, the controller for my Nostromo gamepad (can't live without UT2004) and getting codecs working was a PITA.

For now I am back to living in XP.