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What Was The Size of Your 1st Mass Storage Device?

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Just out of curiosity, what was the capacity of your first PC build's storage device? For mine, I had a 500gb HDD :)

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in my first laptop, it was 80gb I think

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12GB iirc 

 

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20GB I think.

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20GB. :P

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Wow.. I sure feel like I'm late to the game :P Ha!

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9 minutes ago, GreenZombie said:

My first mass memory was 5MB, and if I'm not mistaken, it was the MFM-disk. The price of the disc was approx. 52 000 Finnish marks (= approx. 6000USD) :D

 

25 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

20GB. :P

 

27 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

20GB I think.

It's crazy how affordable digital storage has gotten over even the past 10 years. I didn't even realize a 1 TB WD hard drive cost this low!

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1 minute ago, PCn00b3000 said:

It's crazy how affordable digital storage has gotten over even the past 10 years. I didn't even realize a 1 TB WD hard drive cost this low!

It's also crazy how easily a 1TB hard drive can be filled. 

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51 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

It's also crazy how easily a 1TB hard drive can be filled. 

Very true. I'm sure all of us have hard drives that are full already that are that capacity or more. I guess that's a trend that will continue on 

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the first computer that was MY computer had an 800MB (ish Actual capacity) hard drive (33Mhz CPU with a PHYSICAL TURBO BUTTON that bumped it to 66, even had an LCD display showing the frequency), my second computer (first laptop) was a 1.4GB HDD (and a 133Mhz CPU that cost 2 grand when NEW), boy how things have changed, I have a 4TB NAS now and it's almost out of space .

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12 hours ago, PCn00b3000 said:

 

 

It's crazy how affordable digital storage has gotten over even the past 10 years. I didn't even realize a 1 TB WD hard drive cost this low!

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In like 2 weeks? I plan on getting a 2TB LAPTOP drive for 109.99. Drive prices now are really nice.

 

Throwback to like 2-3 years ago when I bought a 120GB 840 EVO for a whopping 100 dollars. :/

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I think on the first personal desktop I had (that my parents bought for the family) it was actually 2 GB. To think that 20 years later this "standard" size has been multiplied by 1000...

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Maxtor 40MB.  Yes megabyte.  Along with a cga monitor (4 colors).  I'm so ashamed :P

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20MB in my Mac SE

 

Not only storage has grown a lot in the past 30 years.  The SE had an 8MHz Motorola CPU (single core with no hyperthreading, of course) and 1MB of RAM. 

Compare that with today's multi-core 4GHz+ CPUs and all the gigabytes of RAM.

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