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Hard Drives Down To A Dollar A Gigabyte

Posted by timothy on from the inflection-points dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Captain Obvious Strikes Again by Greedo · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A 1 gig drive? Wow! Just imagine what you could do with a Beo...

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  2. $500 for a 10MB drive was CHEAP! by Eric+Smith · · Score: 2, Redundant
    This is truly an amazing milestone for those of us who once spent $500 for the fantastically large 10MB models.
    I dreamed of being able to get 10MB for only $500. My first hard drive was 5MB, and cost $1100 for the drive, $350 for the controller, and $200 for the host adapater. That was only 22 years ago; people were paying over $7000 for a 30MB drive (8-inch or 14-inch) around 1980.

    And no, I'm not going to regale you with tales of having to walk to school 22 miles in the snow, uphill both ways. I only had to walk about 1.5 miles, and it was fairly flat, though there was in fact snow.

  3. Re:who modded this redundant? by LookSharp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Glad someone else noticed the irony of a (non-redundant) post about redundancy that got modded as... Redundant. :)