I picked up an 80GB disk for my system a few years ago, when the X25-M2 model came out from Intel with a price drop. It was great. Firefox launches in 2 secon

I picked up an 80GB disk for my system a few years ago, when the X25-M2 model came out from Intel with a price drop. It was great. Firefox launches in 2 seconds, GRUB to login in < 10s, login to desktop in < 5 seconds. What really hit me hard was gaming. I like to play a few video games from time to time, but they are getting HUGE! For example, World of Warcraft take up about 13GB, and to upgrade to the 4.0 patch it required an additional 20GB (it didn't say this, but that's how much space I had to free before it was able to complete). That's about 35GB for one game, and that's half the space on my SSD. I installed StarCraft II recently and that required 6GB for the download and 14GB for installation. Of course, when I moved the games to an older disk I suddenly had over 50GB free. It's my observation that disk will tend to fill up. First it was with programs, then it was with audio, now it is with video and video games. As soon as we get more space, we will increase the resolution/fidelity until the average person can't tell the difference from a live event.