Website Hosting for Just 20 ForumCoin ~ Advertise on ForumCoin
ForumCoin is an online community where you earn ForumCoin for making posts and for referring other members. You can use the ForumCoin virtual currency to buy and sell goods and services and to exchange for traditional currencies. Find out more!
Talk hardware, software, computer gaming, mobile devices, the Internet, social networking and other technology

The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 cents!

Postby loudawg » 06 Jun 2015, 14:10

I was shocked when I came across this link that shows such decrease in the price of creating a 1GB hard drive since 50 years ago.

https://www.thatdatadude.com/interactiv ... 1950-2010/

I remember my first "decent" computer had 96MB of ram as well as a silly 8GB drive costing over £1,0007
  • 0

User avatar
loudawg
Banned
 
Posts: 576
Location: Sunny Scotland
Reputation: -23
ForumCoin: 250

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby Mark » 06 Jun 2015, 14:36

Nice article.
  • 0

Mark
 
Posts: 703
Referrals: 61
Reputation: 33
ForumCoin: 68

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby loudawg » 06 Jun 2015, 15:15

Drowen9 wrote:Nice article.


Why is it a nice article? What size is your hard drive today and how much would it have cost 50 years ago?
  • 0

User avatar
loudawg
Banned
 
Posts: 576
Location: Sunny Scotland
Reputation: -23
ForumCoin: 250

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby shadypro » 06 Jun 2015, 16:51

HDDs are dirt cheap now , the future is in SSDs.
  • 0

User avatar
shadypro
 
Posts: 664
Reputation: 20
ForumCoin: 12

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby halcyon220 » 06 Jun 2015, 17:13

shadypro wrote:Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce
by shadypro » 20 minutes ago


Would agree with this. More durable. The price is coming down too, and it seems to be a no brainer to have both with the current low price of a HDD and the pros of an SSD.
  • 0

User avatar
halcyon220
 
Posts: 617
Referrals: 1
Reputation: 24
ForumCoin: 207

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby fab » 19 Jun 2015, 06:12

shadypro wrote:HDDs are dirt cheap now , the future is in SSDs.
Also I think this is, in short all the pcs saw manufactures ja with ssd installed, and this hd normal will not exist
  • 0

User avatar
fab
 
Posts: 1,304
Reputation: 22
ForumCoin: 0

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby loudawg » 19 Jun 2015, 09:10

halcyon220 wrote:
shadypro wrote:Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce
by shadypro » 20 minutes ago


Would agree with this. More durable. The price is coming down too, and it seems to be a no brainer to have both with the current low price of a HDD and the pros of an SSD.



Would not say more durable. I have more SSD fails on me than standard HDDS
  • 0

User avatar
loudawg
Banned
 
Posts: 576
Location: Sunny Scotland
Reputation: -23
ForumCoin: 250

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby fab » 20 Jun 2015, 04:40

loudawg wrote:
halcyon220 wrote:
shadypro wrote:Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce
by shadypro » 20 minutes ago


Would agree with this. More durable. The price is coming down too, and it seems to be a no brainer to have both with the current low price of a HDD and the pros of an SSD.

have to take into account that it is a new thing, it does not have much time to use, and optimization

Would not say more durable. I have more SSD fails on me than standard HDDS
  • 0

User avatar
fab
 
Posts: 1,304
Reputation: 22
ForumCoin: 0

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby Allius » 20 Jun 2015, 09:16

The technology is constantly evolving. When computers appeared, for example, they were the size of a room and its price was too high and were obviously not for everyone!
When they began to develop computers to sell to "ordinary" people, at first were still expensive, but as people started buying prices fell. Interestingly, the great evolution that has the technology and the hard drives is equal ...
  • 0

User avatar
Allius
 
Posts: 2,475
Reputation: 508
ForumCoin: 155

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby silverleafy » 20 Jun 2015, 11:01

nah my first drive had like 40 GB if i remember right or 80Gb , it was pretty decent at the time for me :D 2001-2002
  • 0

User avatar
silverleafy
 
Posts: 602
Reputation: 10
ForumCoin: 0

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby ScripterDH » 20 Jun 2015, 13:17

I recently upgraded from an HDD to an SSD and the improve performance of my PC was massive!! :D
  • 0

User avatar
ScripterDH
 
Posts: 43
Location: Portugal
Reputation: 9
ForumCoin: 214

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby merdinyo067 » 21 Jun 2015, 13:16

interesting article infact the hdd's drive dependes on his capacity
  • 0

merdinyo067
 
Posts: 155
Reputation: 0
ForumCoin: 235

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby DinheiroGelada » 21 Jun 2015, 13:39

They're getting smaller and cheaper, which is great =)

Nice article
  • 0

User avatar
DinheiroGelada
 
Posts: 610
Referrals: 99
Reputation: 85
ForumCoin: 50

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby ripadas » 21 Jun 2015, 13:51

I still use the HDD :lol:
Technology is evolving very much! Nice article.
  • 0

User avatar
ripadas
 
Posts: 444
Location: Portugal
Referrals: 3
Reputation: 39
ForumCoin: 66

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby ch0s3nb0y » 21 Jun 2015, 14:01

DinheiroGelada wrote:They're getting smaller and cheaper, which is great =)

Nice article


Indeed. Thanks for sharing 8-)
  • 0

User avatar
ch0s3nb0y
 
Posts: 31
Reputation: 2
ForumCoin: 125

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby tienthanh2929 » 21 Jun 2015, 16:04

ScripterDH wrote:I recently upgraded from an HDD to an SSD and the improve performance of my PC was massive!! :D


it is . I'd like to buy ssd but my mother tell me I CAN'T , lol :lol:
  • 0

tienthanh2929
Banned
 
Posts: 37
Referrals: 2
Reputation: -100
ForumCoin: 170

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby ramzan00 » 23 Jun 2015, 16:22

Interesting article infact the HDD's drive dependes on his capacity,......

Anyway Thanks for sharing with us
  • 0

User avatar
ramzan00
 
Posts: 1,050
Referrals: 2
Reputation: 31
ForumCoin: 68

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby castbound » 23 Jun 2015, 16:41

SSD are nowadays popular.

Plus PC's are faster with SSD.

The prices of HDD will continue decreasing..
  • 0

castbound
 
Posts: 1,131
Referrals: 1
Reputation: 54
ForumCoin: 4

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby roullie666 » 24 Jun 2015, 21:44

I've been using SSD its capacity is a bit low only 60GB and it costs like a 500GB HDD. But SSD are more faster. I don't know if your only refer to HDD.
  • 0

User avatar
roullie666
 
Posts: 451
Referrals: 6
Reputation: 18
ForumCoin: 579

Re: The Cost Of Hard Drives - From 10 Million Dollar to 9 ce

Postby turbopt » 24 Jun 2015, 21:53

Will happen the same with SSD, now are a little expensive
  • 0

turbopt
 
Posts: 159
Reputation: 1
ForumCoin: 139

Next


Your Ad Here.

Return to CGT - Computers, Gaming & Technology



Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests

cron
Reputation System ©'