Hard Drives Down To A Dollar A Gigabyte 736
Junky191 writes "I doubt anyone else noticed this- but today is the first day where mass storage is available for $1 per gigabyte (according to pricewatch,). There are several stores now selling 120GB models for $120 shipped. This is truly an amazing milestone for those of us who once spent $500 for the fantastically large 10MB models. I just can't wait for the days when things are $1/TB." With discounts, the price has been that low for a little while.
Buck a gig (Score:5, Funny)
Leet, now I won't feel so bad knowning that my swap space is only worth a buck.
*Old Man Rant* (Score:5, Funny)
Bah! You kids with your newfangled hard drives! Why, in my day, we worked with ferro-magnetic drives. Sure, the magnets were big, and they were powerful, and dammit if you didn't get a nice buzz while working around these things. That was the way it was, AND we liked it!
AND I had to walk uphill! Twice! In the snow! Buzzed out of my mind!
Hard Drives Size Increased (Score:0, Funny)
"Fast" Hard Drives (Score:5, Funny)
Expands to fill.. (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but by then, Super Windows XP Pro Ultimate Championship Edition will be out, will have backwards compatibility to all prior 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-, and 128-bit architectures, take 8 solar days to load, require 800 terabytes to install, and the neuro-holographic interface will crash regularly, wiping out more data than a human being can process in a lifetime, and throwing people into neural shock. You'll die, but it will be illegal to have any negative feelings towards the occasion, because of the Digital Oblivion Mind-Control Act.
Linux, of course, will still be around and install fine, but no one will care, because they get an extra 7 updates per second playing the Windows version of Quake 82, so it will still be considered a 'toy' OS.
Sometimes I scare myself...
--Dan
In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:*Old Man Rant* (Score:5, Funny)
What what pointless rants are we going to fling at our grandkids?
"Why, when I was your age we didn't have PVRs! You had to record your shows to tape!"
"Spoiled brats! We didn't have cable TV until I was twelve!"
"Oh, the teleporter is too slow? We had to drive for an hour in a car!"
and other pointless irate ramblings.
Re:wow man (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yeah, great (Score:2, Funny)
{grin}
Storage Space (Score:4, Funny)
Attached was a note from the person who built the computer for them, saying something to the effect of "This is more storage space than you will ever need."
I imagine that at the time, 40 MB of storage was friggin' huge.
Re:*Old Man Rant* (Score:5, Funny)
All we had was the letter 'O'...
Re:$1/TB? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Perspective... (Score:5, Funny)
Man, I knew I should have waited a little while longer before buying one of these.
It always happens. You buy the hottest/fastest toy out, and just 46 years later they're releasing something seven million times better.
Re:1024 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Those were the days (Score:1, Funny)
Re:*Old Man Rant* (Score:4, Funny)
Why, in my day, we worked with ferro-magnetic drives.
You had MAGNETIC disks?? In MAH day, we lopped off the end of a wooden log and put pits in the wood with a chisel! And we spun it with a hand-crank! You jus' TRY cranking the disk with one hand while yer typing with the other hand! Damn sap gettin' all over the place...
Re:*Old Man Rant* (Score:5, Funny)
Re:*Old Man Rant* (Score:5, Funny)
"When I was a kid, we didn't have 'L33t'. All we had was 'Cool', and we were damned glad to have it!"
Re:First Hard Drive (Score:1, Funny)
[insert My First Computer Was Pathetic And Not As Powerful As Your First Computer comment here]
Re:*Old Man Rant* (Score:3, Funny)
I remember one really bad cold snap when it got to -72 F. I saw an arc of golden-yellow ice coming out of a snowbank. It took me a few minutes to realize that what I was seeing was dog pee that had frozen in mid air.
I do not miss that kind of cold at all!
Re:wow man (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"Fast" Hard Drives (Score:5, Funny)
Are you really going to store all your pr0n at your grandma's?
Re:*Old Man Rant* (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Perspective... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Perspective... (Score:3, Funny)
wow...and to think...for just a second there i thought they were talking about my ex.....
Re:Perspective... (Score:3, Funny)
If only i could remember where =)
I think you are thinking of Slashdot [slashdot.org].
=)
Re:Perspective... (Score:1, Funny)
I wonder why they put such a thing at the entrance to the Gates Building (yes, it is that Gates).
Re:Yeah, great (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I've been there. (Score:3, Funny)
> a 20 MB HD that was worth $985?
> That's not a troll, I'm sincerely curious.
I had this drive also. You do the typical -- you pack the thing with 256 color dithered porn and warez that fit on (3) 720k floppies.
When I was a boy . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Those were the days (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Unreliable floppy disks (Score:3, Funny)
Encyclopedia to the rescue! I put it inside one volume and then stacked a half dozen more over top of it, and left it for a couple days. Worked fine, not even a bad sector - I have no idea why not. I guess I lucked out and nothing shifted while it was bent, so nothing scraped.
Harrrumph! Well, back in MY days... (Score:4, Funny)
You kids these days don't understand how easy you have it. Why, back in MY days...
I remember my first computer job at a Radio Shack computer center. Some guy had been begging his wife for months to let him buy a hard drive, and she finally let him. I think it was Christmas or something. It was $2,800 (US) and was the size of a mini-tower case laid down flat. I can't remember whether it was a 5 MB or a 10 MB drive.
This would have been... let me think... must 'a been the winter of '84/85... yep, them were the good old days, when floppies were 5 1/4 inches and women were grateful, or something like that.
And when we connected with a modem, we had to flip a switch on the modem with our bare hands! 300 bits per second, BOTH WAYS, by thunder!