Posted on 01/31/2014 11:36:36 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Bloatware is right. I remember in the 1990s when Bill Gates scoffed that any home user would EVER need even a fraction of that amount of storage.
Mine also I bought it direct from Crutchfield and it came with Joe Montana football.
Last year in November I purchased a digital download from Amazon for the MMORPG Secret World it takes up 39 gigs on my Hard drive. (Not Megs but Gigs!)
What is the really astonishing thing is if I had the cash I paid for that first Crutchfield computer now I could buy 4-5 better computers for the same money.
That 10mb mfm drive cost me upwards of $900 "back in the day."
Compare that to the 8 core, 4.2ghz 32GB memory w/GE Force GT660 GPU and Samsung EVO SSD home computer that I built for just under $750 and you can easily see how fast technology has advanced -and cheapened over time.
I must be getting old (I am ....) the first Data Center I managed had less than 3TB of storage across several very physically large Storage Array's.
I have more storage spinning at home now (10TB) than the first three data centers I managed back in the late 80's -- combined.
The Bank I work for now purchases storage in Petabytes. I couldn't tell you how many Petabytes we have -- online -- much less archived off. It's just incredible how storage keeps growing, and growing, and growing.
I personally just "back up" my stuff to a HDD, label it, remove it, and put it on the shelf if I ever need it again. The cost per TB is just so cheap now that it's the easiest and cheapest way for me to do backups anymore.
When I need something off one of those drives, I just slide it into my XDrive SATA external docking device and copy it off. Easy peasy.
very true
I remember seeing a plain old CD burner way back, it was about a grand. lol
“I remember my first hard drive was 200 megs.”
Mine was 20MB and damn was it WAY bigger and faster
than floppies!
What a coincidence. I bought my first PC from Crutchfield and that 286 Goldstar cost me $2000. That was quite a chunk of change back in 1987. :)
Unquestionably.
and access times are faster.
Huh?
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