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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time (lemmy.world)
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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

    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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  • [–] 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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