292
Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent