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Got it yesterday...
While on the surface that may not seem so monumental... although it was only $164, shipped.... (.32/GB)
I think back just 3 years ago (NOV 2011, to be exact) when I paid $90 on Black Friday ($1.50/GB! ) for a mediocre 60GB OCZ Agility3 that I was scared to death of; this was at the height of the OCZ failures (primarily with the Vertex series, but it seemed to spread to all of them) and all computer tech was new to me then, anyway, so doubly so. At the same time I bought a 500GB Hitachi HDD ($100, on sale! ) which I thought was a HUGE hard drive... I mean, how on earth could I ever fill that thing up? Granted, I was coming from a 80GB in my old Dell...
It's funny how time changes perspective... all my 500GB HDDs are gone, I only have 1 1TB drive left... everything else is 2TB and up. And now I have a SSD that's as big as the original HDD I bought for my first build... and that makes the... lessee... the 9th SSD I've purchased in just 3 years. Although I'm relatively new to the PC builder community, I still remember going through the SSD price benchmarks... $1.50/GB, then the Big One: $1/GB! Now we are easily under .50/GB even for higher-end units, and I can buy a 3TB HDD for less than I bought my 500GB just 3 years ago (granted, this was just after the Thai flood.)
Of course, memory has doubled since then...
These are great days we are living in, bros! :biggrin:
While on the surface that may not seem so monumental... although it was only $164, shipped.... (.32/GB)
I think back just 3 years ago (NOV 2011, to be exact) when I paid $90 on Black Friday ($1.50/GB! ) for a mediocre 60GB OCZ Agility3 that I was scared to death of; this was at the height of the OCZ failures (primarily with the Vertex series, but it seemed to spread to all of them) and all computer tech was new to me then, anyway, so doubly so. At the same time I bought a 500GB Hitachi HDD ($100, on sale! ) which I thought was a HUGE hard drive... I mean, how on earth could I ever fill that thing up? Granted, I was coming from a 80GB in my old Dell...
It's funny how time changes perspective... all my 500GB HDDs are gone, I only have 1 1TB drive left... everything else is 2TB and up. And now I have a SSD that's as big as the original HDD I bought for my first build... and that makes the... lessee... the 9th SSD I've purchased in just 3 years. Although I'm relatively new to the PC builder community, I still remember going through the SSD price benchmarks... $1.50/GB, then the Big One: $1/GB! Now we are easily under .50/GB even for higher-end units, and I can buy a 3TB HDD for less than I bought my 500GB just 3 years ago (granted, this was just after the Thai flood.)
Of course, memory has doubled since then...
These are great days we are living in, bros! :biggrin:
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