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Misty-eyed and nostalgic for my SSDs...

Charlie98

Charlie98

Diamond Member
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:
 
This reminds me of the jump I made from a 20MB to a 1GB, 386 > 586. I thought it was difficult to fill the 1GB.
 
Throughout my years of computer interest between 2000 and today, almost every HDD I've ever bought I've paid right around $115.

4GB
15GB
40GB
80GB
320GB
500GB
1TB
1.5TB
2TB
3TB
4TB

All of which I considered to be an unbelievable deal at the time.
 
It's also somewhat shifting to where we no longer need such huge storage space because now we just stream everything.

People used to buy lots of big fat hard drives to fit music files and TV shows/movies. But now you just subscribe to Spotify and Netflix and be happy with a 128 GB SSD because you don't need room to store music/videos.
 
Reminds me of the first Windows PC we had in my house. Was a hewlett packard with a 4GB! (3.6, really) hard drive.

We were never gonna fill that thing 😛

Fast forward 20 years later, and I think I see more than 4GB of new data daily, and probably just as much gets deleted.
 
I'm one of those guys with the spinners and until something changes I'll still be one of those guys with the spinners.:biggrin:
 
Charlie98 said:
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:
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hahahahahhahaaah. Nicely put.
 
KingFatty said:
It's also somewhat shifting to where we no longer need such huge storage space because now we just stream everything.

People used to buy lots of big fat hard drives to fit music files and TV shows/movies. But now you just subscribe to Spotify and Netflix and be happy with a 128 GB SSD because you don't need room to store music/videos.
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TBH, I'm not one of those streaming/cloud guys.... I like stuff on MY hard drive, which is probably why I have the larger capacity HDDs. I don't like programs on the cloud, I don't like my music on the cloud....

I'm one of those guys with the spinners and until something changes I'll still be one of those guys with the spinners.
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I guess I'll axe... what would be enough 'change' to get you to... change? You, too, Corky...
 
Nashemon said:
Throughout my years of computer interest between 2000 and today, almost every HDD I've ever bought I've paid right around $115.

4GB
15GB
40GB
80GB
320GB
500GB
1TB
1.5TB
2TB
3TB
4TB

All of which I considered to be an unbelievable deal at the time.
Click to expand...

I got desperate and paid $300 for a 3TB Hitachi right after the tsunami hit. The real joke: I paid $60 extra for the one with 64MB cache not 32MB cache and couldn't boot from it (MBR and stuff).
 
Charlie98 said:
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:
Click to expand...


I have a small stack of WD 500gb black drives sitting on my desk.
Served me well for so many years I now don't know what to do with them.
 
Charlie98 said:
I guess I'll axe... what would be enough 'change' to get you to... change? You, too, Corky...
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Good question. My lappie is 100% SSD. My "floortop" is a solid P5 with Win 7, and everything works perfectly with spinners. The change will be when I replace it. In the meantime it does everything I need and is very reliable. As for the Cloud - I resist anything I don't control.
 
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