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05-01-11, 06:33 PM
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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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05-01-11, 06:39 PM
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Re: 10,000 times cheaper!
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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05-01-11, 06:42 PM
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Re: 10,000 times cheaper!
Back then would you have ever filled the 80mb hdd?
Nowadays that would be full after a couple of albums 
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Re: 10,000 times cheaper!
Shame the same cant be said of fuel prices or food eh?
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05-01-11, 07:02 PM
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and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law |
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05-01-11, 09:05 PM
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05-01-11, 09:21 PM
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Re: 10,000 times cheaper!
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. |
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