Wrong. Have a look at what things used to cost and what they cost now. I mean in 1980 26 Mb cost $5,000 and today i can buy a 1 TB drive for $50. Have a look at the trends.
Wrong. Have a look at what things used to cost and what they cost now. I mean in 1980 26 Mb cost $5,000 and today i can buy a 1 TB drive for $50. Have a look at the trends.
Didn’t 16 MB HDD’s cost thousands of dollars less than 40 years ago? Many very intelligent people were made to look very stupid by making vast generalizations about how large, expensive, or low-powered various computer components would be “forever”. Please don’t make the same mistake.
Assuming you’re not being sarcastic, I plan on living much longer than through 2022. 16TB solid state disks will have been a $100 Black Friday special by that point.
Yeah.. we will.. I bought my first hdd (8GB) a long time ago for 3x the price I bought my 3TB for and Im not even past 30.
You just proved our point. Within our lifetime these will be under 100 bucks.
Also Moore’s law was originally meant to be applied to transistors density. It has been applied to many many other things but the reality is it isn’t a law of nature and is even less applicable when talking about anything other than…
You are kidding right? Read the stats on the page SkipErnst posted... Example: a terabyte in 1980 cost $193,000,000. Now I can get 1TB drives on amazon for about 50 bucks.
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigab…
Yep, it’s called “Nothing really important I need to deal with in my life, so I have to find useless shit to aggravate me” Syndrome.
There’s medication for your condition.
Dude, it was a picture from a trade show. Probably didn’t even notice the schmutz until later when writing the post.
Yeah,because the article is totally about the quality of the picture.