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This chart is total bullshit on past pricing. Lots of it is wrong. It’s especially laughable to think that normal pc owners in 1999 were paying nearly $10,000 for a 20 GB hard drive. Let alone the cost 5 years before that. Lol
To corroborate what you’re saying, here’s a Compusa ad from 1999. The desktops listed are much cheaper than the $450/GB price and come with, a whole computer around that hard drive.
Plus on page 12, there’s an 18GB drive for $300, or $16.67/GB.
lol nobody had 20gb hard drives as “normal PC owners” in 1999. How old are you?
People very much had 20GB drives that year. Sure, 8GB, 12GB, 13.6GB we’re more common capacities but any mid to high-end system that didn’t have (near enough) 20GB was bad value and drives bigger than that were available.
I’m sure they existed but only on high-end PCs. 20GB drives didn’t become the norm for another two years. I remember; I was there.
I replied to a post saying that nobody had a 20GB system. Sure it was more of a mid to high-end thing, but very much far from nobody.
And I was there too, the low end cheapo PC I got that year had 12GB.
https://vintageapple.org/pcworld/pdf/PC_World_9912_December_1999.pdf
And by 2001 that 12GB got an 80GB companion. Sure, 20GB was some low-end baseline maybe, but I had 12+80 by that year and it was in no way unusual.
Edit: and just checked the Wayback Machine for the local computer shop. The cheapest Celerons had 40GB. In 2001.
I said no “normal pc owners”. Normal pc owners don’t have high end systems. I didn’t say “nobody”.
2 years in the late 90s early 2000s was a millennia. You can’t compare 99 to 01 in any manner.
Old enough that the first PC I built had bunches of dip switches you had to flip around so it would know what to do, depending on what you were putting in it. You ever overclock a cpu by 3Mhz before?
I would have killed for 20Gb of space in 1999 on my personal PC. People ran with nowhere near that much space back then.
I was also the administrator of an HP mainframe at that time, and we ran the whole business on about 5Gb, and paid big $$$ for it.
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In '99 my 8GB disk died, and shortage of stock gave me a 12GB disk as warranty replacement.
Did you mean 20GB? Cause 20Gb = 2.5Gb
There is a difference between gigabytes and gigabits. 1 gigabyte (GB) = 8 gigabits (Gb)
Did you mean 20GB? Cause 20Gb = 2.5Gb
The irony… Nobody talks about bits when it comes to storage, it’s basically only used for transfer speeds. So it should be pretty easy to infer by the context.
Yes, and I think in the context, that is implied. I’m not a cable internet provider advertising “50 Mb” speeds and confusing people when they only get like 6MB.
By late 99 you could catch 10GB drives on sale for $99, dude. If you were cool you bought two of them and ran them in a raid configuration so you had 20GB of space and your drives read/write was way faster. 20GB single drives themselves were still a few hundred, but that was it. I think my pc from like 1995 had 4GB drive in it to start with.
Regardless of anything else, the posted numbers are obviously wack.
Maybe if you’re getting refurbished drives, sure. But new drives are still more frequently around 0.02-0.05 per GB.
Someone should let Apple know
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“Tim Cook hears you, Tim Cook don’t care.”
It’s nice when thing actually go down in price. We need to bring back those days.
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I love just straight up lying. I wish it was 1¢ per GB. Maybe the most dirt cheap Chinese off-brand that only has 1/2 of its listed capacity usable because it is a refurb labelled as new. 100€ for a 10TB is insane.
Even going higher capacity to get a lower price per GB, 10TB drives are around 300€. That is 0.03€ per GB. 20TB drives are around 525€. (These are just consumer drives too, enterprise is significantly more expensive for the MTBF ratings) Still 0.026€ per GB. Once you get into ultra high capacity, it starts going up again because of tech limitations.
Here you can get 12TB, new, from a trusted German seller, for 129€, which is 1.075 cents per GB.
It’s lying in the other direction as well. We had a 2GB HDD on our computer in the late 90s that I am very sure did not cost thousands of dollars.
I bought a 20TB external hard drive a year ago for 0.015 cents per GB. This was after taxes, so it was technically cheaper.
$301.69/20,000 = 0.0150
20y ago $5? No. But also, I’m an apple guy. They fuck you on storage. But I also buy third-party devices so still, no.
TBF, everyone fucks you on built-in storage, especially soldered SSDs that can’t be upgraded, and I’m very much not an Apple guy.
Yeah his numbers are definitely off for that era…
Diablo 2 was released 25 years ago and it required 1GB storage… he is saying that every D2 player had a $500+ HDD lmao
Yeah, we had a prebuilt without anything special in it with about 5GB storage when I played Diablo II. I don’t know how much it cost, but my dad was cheap and usually bought bottom end stuff, so probably $500-800 total. There’s no way the storage was the bulk of that price…
The trouble was less dollar to space in the past as it was dollar to certain benchmarks of space.
So soon it will free! Can’t wait
Someone do one for the average physical size taken up by 1 GB.
When I was a kid we had a 500 MB drive that was the size of a brick and now we have microsd cards that are 1TB. Pretty wild.
The spec exists for a 128TB SDUC card.
There probably doesn’t exists one yet, or maybe only in a lab somewhere and probably costs more than my car.
Still, today’s storage density is kinda nuts.
Within my lifetime, we’ve went from 1.5MB being high-density portable storage, now you can have a 2TB thumb drive in your pocket.
I’m guessing it is based upon this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage
45 years ago the cost was 567 382,81 for a GB. Now it is 0.01 for a GB.
Although the graph is in TB.
Most likely not based on consumer hardware though.
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I can get a 2.5TB backup tape for about $10.
That’s $0.004/GB
This crazy storage inflation rate is going to kill us all. We need to halt this inflation somehow. Feds?
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