How big was your first hard disk?

Swapped a goldstar cdrom standalone unit, had to put the CD in a caddy and only worked at 1x speed for a 15 Meg scsi double height 5.25 with full length adapter card - this was back in 93/94
 
First computers I used were a Dragon 32 (anoyne else remember them?) and a ZX Spectrum. Neither had a hard drive, but the Dragon had a nifty cartridge slot on the back and my dad (being an electronics engineer) build an EPROM blower so we could write data to the cartidges. So it was technically an SSD! 1983, I think that was!

First IBM-compatible PC I bought in 1994 and was a 486SX 33. I purchased it with a 170MB hard drive. It turned out somoene had made a mistake and fitted it with a 210MB disk. I thought I'd won the lottery!

I also remember reading through a PC hardware catalogue in the mid-nineties (y'know, those things we had to use before websites like Overclockers existed!) and drolling over the 9GB SCSI hard drives they had for sale. Oh, how I wished I could afford the £1000 required to own one of those.
 
20MB in an IBM XT it was huge (Physically) I'm sure intodays terms it would fill 3 5.25" drive bays. after that they steadily grew and each time I've thought I'll never need more than that so 128mb turned into 540mb then I broke a gig with a 2.5gb drive and then after a few more upgrades I'm up to 600gb it's mental. Allthough I guess the fact that my XT had an expansion card to get the memory upto 512K is pretty incredible along with the fact I once splashed out about £200 on 8mb of RAM for my P66.
 
850MB in my first 'PC' with 8MB of EDO RAM.

God knows what was in the Amstrad or Amiga that I had before that. I had secondary FDD on my Amiga for pro loading of games though :D
 
20 MB in a intel 80286 with 1 Mb ram. It come with a magnificent 12" Mono VGA monitor (For the young ones, its a very good monitor because the norm was a CGA)
 
I dont remember my first, but it was in a 386. Then the 486 which had 400ish Mb No cd-drive or soundcard . . . . though I did upgrade the PC with both after saving my pennies (I was 14 at the time). I bought a parallel Zip100 drive to upgrade the storage since HD were so expensive. I still have that Zip100 drive! After that I upgraded to my Pentium 200 with 32mb ram and a 1gb Quantum Bigfoot (Failed after 11months and 2 weeks!) that was replaced with a 5gb, then after that it kept going up and up. Currently sitting on total storage space of 5tb.
 
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