PCs have changed a lot

[winemaker81]

In the Post a Photo thread, there's a few posts about ancient PC technology. I've got an interesting story.

In 1989, I replaced the 10 MB hard drive in the office server with a 40 MB drive. The price had just come down to $750 USD, we were out of space, so the office head authorized it.

Ten years later I replaced the HD in my PC. I figured the per MB cost for each:

At 1989 prices, the 1999 HD would have cost $750,000.​

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At 1999 prices, the 1989 HD would have cost about $0.02.​

A HD I installed in 2009 would have cost something like $45,000,000 at 1989 prices.

 

[Christopher Anderson]

Two months ago, my company got rid of some Dell video servers with 10 Terabit HDD. They say properly dispose of them. which I did. Into our vehicles and upgraded my servers at home. The problem is we stream so much, and I can just stream what I want and not "record" anything off the stream.