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lokoston t1_j9ez514 wrote

I bet you were never as happy as a clam like I was when I bought a hard drive for my PC. It was "only" $500 and it had a whooping storage of 500Mb. I think we're talking late 80s or early 90s.

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rolandtgs t1_j9ezo74 wrote

Mid 90's the cost was about a dollar per meg.

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lokoston t1_j9ezyio wrote

Yep. I remember being so happy with that "development".

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Slane__ t1_j9gi9hq wrote

500Mb! So much space! No way I could ever fill that up...

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mansnothot69420 t1_j9f5tqs wrote

The newer generations will never understand the pain of paying $100 for a 1TB NVME SSD

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GelbeForelle t1_j9jm8lt wrote

Wasn't that still true like a year ago? Just wait for PCIe 5.0 SSDs and we will have it again

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CruisinJo214 t1_j9eywo2 wrote

Not sure this generation remembers paying $100 for a 256mb hard drive….

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9fig1h wrote

I remember them I just didn't have that kind of money back then lol

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GenXer1977 t1_j9fkwt1 wrote

Yeah, when I got my first digital camera I think 256 was either the biggest storage available or the biggest storage I could afford. I had 3 or 4 of those and then I got a 512. I think that was the biggest I had before I just switched to using the camera on my phone.

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tudor2711 t1_j9m7jnv wrote

Man what have you made me remember lol, that was a tough time but yeah we have that experience and many people are gonna feel so nostalgic about this haha.

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dangmanhvn t1_j9mc4l0 wrote

We have paid so much back then and now people are never gonna understand the real pain most of the people have faced, that was the real deal for most of us.

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cdloveless t1_j9m72t4 wrote

Some people are gonna say that this was easy or something, nah man, this buying like that expensive was never a normal thing, people should see our struggle lol.

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androidiqmen t1_j9k3ggl wrote

That was the real pain, I used to beg to my daddy for that and then he made me buy some things with it, still remember that time, what a time that was though.

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Moghovich t1_j9ftf56 wrote

In 2000 we bought a digital camera instead of hiring a photographer for our wedding. It came with an 8MB compact flash card, which obviously wasn't enough -- so we splurged and bought a 64MB compact flash card for $350 or so.

I just bought a 128GB SD card for $28...

Edit: $350 in 2000 dollars is about $575 now

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9ftxma wrote

Yeah when you calculate for inflation it's a little alarming

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PdxPhoenixActual t1_j9iimk6 wrote

I paid 500$ for a Kodak dc25.... 14 wee little postage stamp size pictures... & got an 8mb (at like 80$?) cf card that added 15 more. Remember having to be very picky about what pics I wanted to take when out & about...

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Moghovich t1_j9jg9a5 wrote

Ours was a few years later, I surfed through Kodak's lineup and I think we had a DC240. Its form factor is similar to the DC25, but it had a zoom lens and of course better resolution.

Reading through this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DC_Series it sounds like your DC25 came out before JPEG was really accepted as a standard -- today it seems like JPEG was always there. Wild.

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PdxPhoenixActual t1_j9n7iy4 wrote

Idk. I got it late 96-early 97 & then in '00 I upgraded to the dc4800 (750 monies ! ) wtf was i thinking.

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darkjhack t1_j9msvwy wrote

The new generation will never know the thrill of making a mixtape for someone and the hours it took to perfect it.

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LuxInteriot t1_j9f3ncj wrote

IBM 1301 was the size of a large cabinet, had 80MB storage and costed U$ 115 k. It was launched in 1961. I've never came close to something like that in my life, but it's no mystery to me - storage was pricey and minimal. I think it's the other way around - think of a computer technician from the 60s being thawed from a cryogenic chamber and hearing about storage sizes and bit transfer rate these days.

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9f45p2 wrote

Oh for sure. I've seen old computers that took up entire rooms and had less power than our phones today. I just remember needing a flash drive for university and having to spend $100 just to get a reasonable amount of storage. This was only 12 years ago but it didn't take long for flash storage to get mostly phased out of everyday use.

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riggrip t1_j9ggf70 wrote

We got played homie. How many have woken up since then? None. Idiots pay double for a PS5 for years. Nothing new here.

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Cumupin420 t1_j9eyxdc wrote

It's all relative, I never thought it was painful to pay 250 for a 512kb drive. I was the biggest swinging dick with that drive, didn't have to uninstall any game ever.

Point is the new 100 dollar drive is the 1tb and that's bigger than you need right now just like the 512kb was bigger than I needed. No pain just progress, you pay to be on the cutting edge and those that do are happy to. I never once bitched about buying new tech

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9fi7vm wrote

Not disagreeing, but my thought was specifically about how flash drives aren't really all that common place anymore, where as when I was in university 12 years ago it was a necessity

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Cumupin420 t1_j9gn8vc wrote

I use them daily at work. I have 6 images mounted that I use daily and use them to transfer data in a pinch. Without flash drives my daily life at work would suck. Consumers don't really have a use for thumb drives but every device you have has flash memory in it.

I'm in IT and they are used all the time. They have m.3 flash drives even. That's what I use and they are not cheap. Lots of tech stuff need them, it's how you load shit

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Mixt-meta4z-1463 t1_j9f5u86 wrote

A roommate I had in the Navy in the early '90s paid $1000 for a 1GB SCSI hard drive. Never mind the price of the controller card and cable.

I thought my 80286/12Mhz/4Meg with a 44Mb hard drive was the bomb. Don't forget the 9600 baud USRobotics modem! (All before Al Gore invented the interwebs)

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ocelot-gazebo t1_j9f81i8 wrote

My "best" was a 64MB thumb drive disguised as a Swiss army knife. $98.

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NJtoNM t1_j9fj38n wrote

On my first work PC, I upgraded to a 70MB HDD. It was $700 to get that larger drive.

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phil_66666 t1_j9jn0kz wrote

Back when these upgrades were so fucking expensive.

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convalytics t1_j9i2r58 wrote

These new generations will never remember paying $100 for 8MB of RAM.

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wuvireday t1_j9mulfb wrote

It was a lot of money for me but still I had that courage to get that kinda RAM lol.

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Regnes t1_j9lb06p wrote

No, it was pretty amazing at the time. Before flash drives, floppies were your standard option for rewritable storage. They held only 1.5 megs, so the jump was insane and so worth the price.

What stung was how just a few years later the technology had advanced so much that they became dollar store items.

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p3t3rn9uy3n t1_j9jvrbi wrote

Which one is faster though? I never got with this comparison.

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landwomble t1_j9fbwpi wrote

I remember the first thumbdrive we ever got at work. Around £400 for 120mb. That's MB, not GB.

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nihilt-jiltquist t1_j9fgwlc wrote

try paying $100 for 100Mb zip drive back in the previous century...

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porcelainvacation t1_j9itaj1 wrote

That was a pretty good deal for the drive. I think the discs were around $10 each. I still have a FireWire portable Zip drive around somewhere.

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dector1501 t1_j9l7ruv wrote

But look at the size man, that's just 100MB there, so less.

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porcelainvacation t1_j9ld99m wrote

It was a great improvement over the 3.5” floppy, which was the standard for portable data storage at the time.

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skopiel t1_j9lvnvn wrote

Previous century people were on the struggle with it, I know lol.

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barely_engineered t1_j9guodm wrote

My first hard drive was 20MB. It was an external drive the same footprint as the PC, so we kept the PC on top of it. It weighed 8lbs and the list price was $1300.

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Mastereza t1_j9mibw8 wrote

There are so special memories with our first hard drives man lol.

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ndasilva1981 t1_j9guqug wrote

And to think I just paid $6 CDN after taxes for a Kingston 64GB USB flash drive... wow.

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keetae t1_j9lux82 wrote

I guess for now, technology is way too different, we know it.

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Aanttonyy t1_j9hlvcu wrote

Sure. If you don't account for the growth of programs. I don't know any stats on this but a COD game that is roughly ~130GB is 13% of a 1TB that is roughly $100. I feel like the bang for your buck is there but newer generations get bigger numbers for their dollars?

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tacticalpotatopeeler t1_j9hnlqc wrote

I paid $65 for my first thumb drive: 128 mb.

That’s megabytes, not gigabytes…

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RonSwansonsOldMan t1_j9hpjlv wrote

When CD player/recorders first came out. my ex-BIL bought one and paid 20 thousand dollars for it.

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9hppfp wrote

That.... Can't be true. Really??!? Are you talking like CD-RW drives? Or like walkman players?

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RonSwansonsOldMan t1_j9hq1hi wrote

Like a machine that would both play CDs and record things like off the TV.

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9hq41i wrote

Do you mean DVD?

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Ringhoo t1_j9jj1i7 wrote

Can't be true because I can't see any use of buying like that.

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9jkmkf wrote

I looked it up and apparently CD preceded VHS and Betamax so I can see how someone who needed or wanted to record and store media files would dish out that kind of money, especially if it was for a business or something

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zocjoc t1_j9jkojh wrote

I am a bit confused, you are talking about some other type of disk.

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greenalliance t1_j9kdzgw wrote

It's so fucking unbelievable that someone could get that.

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boneldor01 t1_j9mdupx wrote

20K? What the fuck he wanted to do with all of it my man?

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TSIDAFOE t1_j9hzaee wrote

"Everyone needs a flash drive for this class. If you're paying more than $1/GB for a flashdrive, you're getting ripped off"

My tech-ed teacher, circa 2012. Crazy how far technology has come in just ten years.

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gergerwsd t1_j9jo2nj wrote

True, technology is still being changed every fucking year.

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divinecomics t1_j9i3duj wrote

Or you could buy ~700 3.5 floppy disks around 1995 for $2-3 a piece

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SotashiSan t1_j9jrfx0 wrote

Some people were never a big fan of floppy disk, they were idiots.

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divinecomics t1_j9sg5bm wrote

That was when you really needed programs like Winzip and would split across multiple disks many times. I doubt many of these graphic artists for video games today have any clue about compression.

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KingOfTheHlll t1_j9ibcoi wrote

I remember when I bought my 512 mb sd card for my phone it was like $15 now that’s what it cost a 32gb one

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Jonnyxz2006 t1_j9mmqcv wrote

I used to fill up some movies in those cards from local stores.

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dsonyx t1_j9ifwhd wrote

I remember needing a flash drive for college. I went to a Compusa that was 45 minutes away. It was the closest computer store to me. I paid $125 for a 512mb PNY flash drive. I still have it as a memento.

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kennystrupp t1_j9mc9wv wrote

College time was the real struggle if we don't have those drives lol.

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FaceTheSun t1_j9ik4ia wrote

lol....the first time I bought RAM to upgrade my PC it cost $50.00/MB....so 1 GB would be $50,000.00.

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Dyak80 t1_j9lkh32 wrote

That is just a lot, can you explain me why was that so expensive?

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FaceTheSun t1_j9llioy wrote

It was in about 1987... the computer had only a few MB to begin with.

There was no such thing as USB at that time and a high capacity removable storage (floppy disc) had maybe 1.4 MB !

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So things are a bit different these days.

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ntgroos t1_j9lkug4 wrote

That was a gold time though, I don't regret buying like that because now people can't fucking experience that, they are still not gonna get what we loved back then.

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Jackrabbitkeys t1_j9lq4zd wrote

I remember having to rewind my VHS tapes to watch my favorite movies. The struggle was real.

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