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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time (lemmy.world)
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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (14 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    lol nobody had 20gb hard drives as “normal PC owners” in 1999. How old are you?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Did you mean 20GB? Cause 20Gb = 2.5Gb

    There is a difference between gigabytes and gigabits. 1 gigabyte (GB) = 8 gigabits (Gb)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    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.

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