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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

In '99 my 8GB disk died, and shortage of stock gave me a 12GB disk as warranty replacement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, and I think in the context, that is implied. I'm not a cable internet provider advertising "50 Mb" speeds and confusing people when they only get like 6MB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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.