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>It's crazy to me how consumer computer storage has stalled out at the 2010 level for so long. And if anything we're going backwards now in 2026. We should be h

>It's crazy to me how consumer computer storage has stalled out at the 2010 level for so long. And if anything we're going backwards now in 2026. We should be having many TBs in our home computers and laptops. Instead most users are still stuck with 256GB and trying to tetris around to fit even their average amount of small data. Well we got to the point where you can have 8TB of slow storage or 256GB of faster storage and everyone chose speed.

Dylan16807 6mo ago
> Well we got to the point where you can have 8TB of slow storage or 256GB of faster storage and everyone chose speed. In 2014-2015, $100 would get you either 3TB of hard drive or 256GB of SSD. In 2023-2024, $100 would get you 2TB of SSD. (For a few months even 3TB.) So yeah everyone chose the speed option, but the speed option should have kept growing. Outside of bargain basement models 1-2TB should have become the minimum size.