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by icedchai 1409 days ago
Not anymore.

To put things in perspective, my first hard drive, back in 1989, was 30 megabytes. I think it did about 500Kbytes/sec for reads. I also had a 2400 baud modem.

Today, 30 megabytes is a 1 second download on a bad day.