Drop from 51 inches?  No problem.

60 inches?  Nine feet?  Child's play.

15 foot drop (fifteen, that's one and a half stories) on concrete?  p-shawww.

Run over with a Chevy Tahoe? Bring it.

Go over to Popular mechanics to see which hard drive faired the best.

link here: 4 New Portable Hard Drives: Abusive Lab Test (With Video)

This poll is now closed.

So, let's review this completely unscientific but interesting poll.

1. Most votes: More than 2 terrabytes of storage.  That is very interesting.  Far greater than I would have expected.  The rivet's demographic is skewed, but still quite impressive ladies and gentlemen.
2. There is a little gap between <750 gigs and >1 terrabyte.  It seems that you either got it or you don't.  Not a whole lotta gray area going on here.
3. Whoever answered "what?" needs to get with the program.

This poll was just an illustration how accelerating change has invaded our personal lives. The levels of data storage that the poll contains were corporate levels 10 years ago and government levels 20 years ago. Now you can buy a memory stick with 64 gigs on it!

You can't stop it, just gotta love it

In this day and age where he have memory cards approaching 64 gigabytes in size and hard drives in the terabyte plus range, we here at techRivet research were curious to find out how much personal storage our readers have.

so...tell us...please.

I was just having this conversation with my brother. Essentially Hard Drives have overshot their market segment.  They consistently provide more and more storage capacity and have now exceeded the needs of their customers.  Do you really need a terabyte in your home?  Unless you are ripping your entire DVD collection (ummm...not legal right now) to your HD, you are probably fine with a couple of 120gig drives.

Enter solid state.

Quieter, more energy efficient, better I/O.

...and now you can get them up to 128gig: Toshiba to Offer 128 GB Flash Drive

done and done.

I wanted to start out by saying, unbelievable, but then I realized that it is COMPLETELY believable. It was practically inevitable.

Then I said, "Actually it is unbelievable that it was inevitable...wait...that's a bit of weird logic."

Anyways. We now have available to us a standard 3.5 inch hard drive that has a 1 terabyte capacity. For the layman that is 1000⁴ = 10¹² or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.

Here is the full review: Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive

Being first to the terabyte mark gives Hitachi bragging rights, and more importantly, the ability to offer single-drive storage capacity 33% greater than that of its competitors. Hitachi isn't banking on capacity alone, though. The 7K1000 is also outfitted with a whopping 32MB of cache—double what you get with other 3.5" hard drives. Couple that extra cache with 200GB platters that have the highest areal density of any drive on the market, and the 7K1000's performance could impress as much as its capacity.

Unbelievable. heh.