I assume that's the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world's first >1GB hard drive.

It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today's money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.

My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it's all hobby-level.

I wouldn't mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I'm already saving up for a 24TB NAS.

This take is short-sighted. This same comment could be copy-pasted to 20 years ago when the first 1TB HDD was released. Of course it was stupid expensive. But now you would hardly glance at an HDD under 1TB. Technological progress is fast, and benefits consumers.

I don’t get the responses disagreeing with you. Citing as-yet undefined needs of an AVERAGE consumer while completely disregarding that the people on Lemmy are far more tech-focused and that the average tech level of a consumer is that they can’t even turn the computer off and on again. Almost nobody needs such massive storage, it’s a very niche need. The vast majority would never run out with 1TB. I’ve got 3TB and a huge collection of music, movies and photos I’ve backed up and there’s still room to go. The clowns disagreeing with you are running an -arr stack and thinking “I could fill that…”