10,000 times cheaper!

[tigersaw]

I remember getting exited about upgrading my 40mb hard drive to 80mb on my old 486. At the time it cost just under £100, and I remarked how prices are falling, its now almost £1 a meg!
Fast forward to today, just bought a 500gb pocket drive for backups for £50.
Thats 10,000 times cheaper than 20 (ish) years ago. I would never have predicted that, ever.

[maviczap]

I know, I bought a 1Tb HD for £39 for my PC latest build, amazing prices these days

I paid a nearly a grand for my first PC

[DarrenSV650S]

Back then would you have ever filled the 80mb hdd?

Nowadays that would be full after a couple of albums :p

[Biker Biggles]

Shame the same cant be said of fuel prices or food eh?

[maviczap]

Back then would you have ever filled the 80mb hdd?

Nowadays that would be full after a couple of albums :p

Yep my first pc was 40gb

[DarrenSV650S]

Yep my first pc was 40gb

I meant tigersaw's "back then". You must be younger ;)

[the_lone_wolf]

http://www.techrivet.com/resources/images/GigabyteComparison_20yago.jpg

[garynortheast]

I remember getting exited about upgrading my 40mb hard drive to 80mb on my old 486. At the time it cost just under £100, and I remarked how prices are falling, its now almost £1 a meg!
Fast forward to today, just bought a 500gb pocket drive for backups for £50.
Thats 10,000 times cheaper than 20 (ish) years ago. I would never have predicted that, ever.

Have a read of this http://www.intel.com/about/companyinfo/museum/exhibits/moore.htm

and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

[mr.anderson]

http://www.swaglikeme.com/storage/newer-posts/500x_bondi-blue-imac.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1285390754096

[speedplay]

I just bought a couple of seagate external drives to pull apart for my media pc.
Maplins are doing the external 2tb for £90.
Odd thing is, the 2tb is cheaper than the 1.5tb and the externals are cheaper than the internals.

Buying power I guess.

[maviczap]

I just bought a couple of seagate external drives to pull apart for my media pc.
Maplins are doing the external 2tb for £90.
Odd thing is, the 2tb is cheaper than the 1.5tb and the externals are cheaper than the internals.

Buying power I guess.

All those gigabytes of gay pron ;)

Good idea to back up your lifetimes work there mate, would want you to loose it. Media PC my arese :rolleyes:

[speedplay]

Mines full of gay porn :rolleyes:



Oddly enough, my media centre is set to "back up" any DVD, CD or Game disc that is put into it...;)

[maviczap]

Oh dear

Let the games begin ;):D

[maviczap]

Oddly enough, my media centre is set to "back up" and DVD, CD or Game disc that is put into it...;)

I lost out on an Ebay auction for an HTPC case, graphics card & motherboard, its my next project to build a media pc for my gay pron. (oops secrets out)

I think we're derailed this thread enough, night night