Sweet Merciful Storage Heaven

10:20 am EST February 3rd, 2010 | News | 7 Comments

My first DOS-based PC (a smoking fast 486sx-25mhz with 1mb of RAM) came with a 60mb hard drive that was pretty hefty for its day. Now? You can get 2 TERABYTES for around $200. And that will probably cost $100 by the end of the year. Crazy.

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7 Responses to “Sweet Merciful Storage Heaven”

  1. justadood says:
    February 3, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    be sure to check your present OS and ensure that it can address that amount of space before purchasing the drive.

    Yeah, you should still be able to partition and format on the drive, but you may ‘lose’ significant space if the OS cannot address 2TB in one partition.

    Price-wise? makes me a little ill–I sold 80MB SCSI for $800 back in the day. I wish we could get solid-state memory for this price…..

  2. Fred says:
    February 3, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    Your first PC had a hard drive?

    I guess I’m old …

    Dual floppies man – TWO where others only had one. That’s what I’m talking about.

    … and that’s just if you don’t consider the Trash 80 to be a real PC ….

  3. Sue Young says:
    February 3, 2010 at 10:33 pm

    I started working in IT in the late 80′s. I remember talking to a coworker about how storage was down to about $10 a megabyte and how great it was. Now I just spent $100 for a terabyte usb drive.

    We’re buying insanely large servers from Dell with 48Gb RAM for $5000 now. They’re running 14 virtual servers. It’s amazing.

  4. Mike says:
    February 3, 2010 at 11:05 pm

    American 8088, two 5.25 inch (actually floppy) floppy drives, no hard drive, 64 kb of ram (smokin’).

  5. calling all toasters says:
    February 4, 2010 at 12:05 am

    2 terabytes is a whole lot of punch cards.

  6. blurdo says:
    February 4, 2010 at 12:32 am

    and I was the BMOC(or at least in my dorm) when I showed up with a 10MB hard drive. It was a tech school, we were geeks.

  7. justadood says:
    February 4, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    Temple of Apshai Trilogy, dude….. I knew the developers, so I had access to their machines and code to play with.

    Those were the days…..