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I'll admit those were the biggest you could get. Looking at any historical information you can find, that summarizes drives, it looks like every year they were pretty much doubling or better so in 1990 people were getting 40MB-100MB drives in retail consumer stores, but a year later it was more like 150MB/250MB, then a year later it was 350 MB to 500MB, then suddenly 1GB+.

From what I'm reading in a four year time span it went from consumers only being able to get tens to maybe 100 MB to being able to actually get close to a gigabyte in just four years. A couple years after that 4GB to nearly 9 GB drives were available, again at the most top end business prices. But you could get them money not being an object.

I would call that pretty remarkable acceleration in under five years! Obviously the ethernet standard increased by 10 times as well so a system of that generation would've been able to handle it. Obviously SGI didn't put much future proofing into the NIC on the Indy/Indigo(2). The O2 and higher really got that I guess.