10,000 times cheaper!
 

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.

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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

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

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

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

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Yep my first pc was 40gb

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

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Have a read of this http://www.intel.com/about/companyin...bits/moore.htm

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

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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.