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Everytime I see prices of hard drives back in the day, I get a feeling that's a mixture of claustrophobia, despair and shock.
by alangibson 4y ago
Everytime I see prices of hard drives back in the day, I get a feeling that's a mixture of claustrophobia, despair and shock.
- 300bps 4y agoIt’s all relative. My first hard drive was a Seagate ST-251 40 MB MFM hard drive on my 10 MHz Intel 8088 CPU. It cost about $300 at the time and perpetually remained about 80% full. The last hard drive I bought was a Seagate Exos X18 18 TB Sata hard drive on my 3.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU. It cost about $300 and has perpetually remained about 80% full.
- hansel_der 4y agoso true :D
- PopAlongKid 4y agoMy first hard drive was a PCs Limited (now known as Dell) "drive on a card" which was a competitor to the higher-priced 20MB HardCard (brand name as I recall). I'd have to go to another computer to try looking up the purchase price. There were hard drives mounted directly on an interface card, they would take up two slots, when five available slots max was pretty much standard.
- stevenjgarner 4y agoI remember buying an external 5GB hard drive for $4,999 with the first ProTools system back in 1991 (which itself cost much more than that). I was more amazed at having that much capacity than I am now buying yet another 4TB drive from Walmart for less than $100.