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Jul. 22nd, 2005 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progJust ordered a 250 GB hard disk for $99. I believe that that translates to around 20 hours of uncompressed DV storage capacity, so it should work excellently as a workspace for my video-production fun, with lots room to spare.
It's an oft-repeated story but I can't resist: the last time I bought a hard drive for my Mac woulda been around 1997, when I splurged on a 2GB drive -- less than one percent of the capacity of this one -- and probably paid twice as much for it. A real bargain, at the time. (This was a different Mac than the one I'm using now, of course, but still.)
It's an oft-repeated story but I can't resist: the last time I bought a hard drive for my Mac woulda been around 1997, when I splurged on a 2GB drive -- less than one percent of the capacity of this one -- and probably paid twice as much for it. A real bargain, at the time. (This was a different Mac than the one I'm using now, of course, but still.)
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Date: 2005-07-23 03:55 pm (UTC)When I was in second year uni a buddy was a real computer geek, and he once waxed enthusiastic about the new "Winchester" disks that had just come out. You could only write on them once, he said, but that didn't matter, because they were...TEN MEGABYTES! You'd use one for five years, he said, and then copy the few hundred K that were still of interest to a new drive, and throw the old one away.
I don't recall the cost, but I'm pretty sure in constant dollars it was a lot more than $99.
That was in 1982 or thereabouts.