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Ten years ago desktop hard drives were 4-8GB. You're off by an order of magnitude.
by azbob 17y ago
Ten years ago desktop hard drives were 4-8GB. You're off by an order of magnitude.
- SwellJoe 17y agoA couple of Google searches reveals that IBM introduced a 16.8GB drive in 1997, and the 137GB ATA limitation was broken in 2002. I don't think I'm off by an order of magnitude, and it looks like 4-8GB was the 1997-ish era desktop disk size. Ah, here we go: http://www.disktrend.com/newsrig.htm http://www.disktrend.com/newsrig.htm Which shows that drives in the 40-80GB range were being sold in both 1998 and 1999, but the bulk of revenues was in the 5-10 and the 10-20 GB range. So, there were definitely 40GB drives in 1999, but I'll concede that based on those sales numbers the average new desktop in 1999 would have probably had a ~10GB drive. So, I'm not quite off by an order of magnitude, but my memory was a couple of years off.