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Hard Drives Down To A Dollar A Gigabyte
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.
Leet, now I won't feel so bad knowning that my swap space is only worth a buck.
Trolling is a art,
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!
/.'s 10 Millionth
I doubt anyone else noticed this- but today is the first day where mass storage is available (according to pricewatch). There are several stores now selling 12GB hard drives models for only $250 shipped. This is truly an amazing milestone for those of us who ran out of space downloading Yanni mp3s. I just can't wait for the days when hard drives are replaced by women. Pretty women.
Producer: NEXT!!
Ralph Wiggum: Chicken necks
Did anyone actually go look at the drive listed? It's a 5400 rpm drive. My grandma can remember information faster than that.
Producer: NEXT!!
Ralph Wiggum: Chicken necks
I just can't wait for the days when things are $1/TB.
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
... Intel and AMD have finally smashed through that 1GHz barrier. Film at 11.
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
Wow, you remember when 1 MB == 1000 MB. Now *that's* magic!!
{grin}
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.
You're quite right. 640KB should be enough for anybody.
> 1957, the first hard drive was introduced as a component of IBM's RAMAC 350. It required 50 24-inch disks to store five megabytes (million bytes, abbreviated MB) of data and cost roughly $35,000 a year to lease - or $7,000 per megabyte per year.
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.
ofcourse I meant to say that 1 terabyte = 1024 GIGABYTE yottabyte = 1 yottabyte = 1024 zettabytes = 1048576 exabytes = 1073741824 petabytes = 1099511627776 terabytes = 1125899906842624 gigabytes = 1152921504606846976 megabytes = 9223372036854775808 Megabits = 1180591620717411303424 kilobytes = 9444732965739290427392 Kilobits = 1208925819614629174706176 bytes = 2417851639229258349412352 nibbles = 9671406556917033397649408 bits me dumbass
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That's easy: they're all sitting at the bottom of my file cabinet
Wow.
[insert My First Computer Was Pathetic And Not As Powerful As Your First Computer comment here]
You see, Vergon 6 was once filled with the super-dense substance known as dark matter, each pound of which weighs over ten thousand pounds.
7 megabytes sticks in your head?! I'm sorry to hear that. You must have a horrible time being able to remember things. ;)
wow...and to think...for just a second there i thought they were talking about my ex.....
Was a site specificly for stupid ideas like that =).
If only i could remember where =)
I think you are thinking of Slashdot.
=)
Do you Gentoo!?
"The plaque next to it said that it wasn't very reliable and generated lots of heat."
I wonder why they put such a thing at the entrance to the Gates Building (yes, it is that Gates).
I had saved over 100 MB of detailed reliability statistics for all sorts of hard drives for the last 15 years. Unfortunately, I was keeping them on an IBM hard drive, and it failed last week. Sorry.
I hate it when I make a joke and I get modded "+5 insightful". Mod the stupid comments "funny", not "insightful", pleas
>What did you plan on doing with an Atari ST and
> 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.
Oh yeah? The first hard drive I ever used was a large circular stone tablet with concentric cavities chiseled into it such that you could place and remove pebbles in each cavity to switch a bit on or off. I think that was round 3177 B.C.
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.
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!
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