Data Storage is getting ridiculous

[Sparko]

Yeah, it is really neat how far technology has progressed in my lifetime. At this point I need to get a hard drive with more space for my gaming PC. Still trying to figure out which one to get, and what is a good price for it. 8-10TB would be where I would want it for now.

The 10TB and up are still pretty expensive. I just used my "stimulus" check to buy my 12TB drives, and they were $300 each (NAS quality). They seem to drop in price around 8TB ($150) and lower. You can get a 5TB for around $100.

[rogue06]

The office my father worked at had a computer room where the giant computer used punch cards.

When I was in college they still had computer rooms and they had to be kept pretty cool because of all the heat the computers produced.

My first computer used floppy discs.

[Cerebrum123]

SD drives have come WAY down, too!

Yeah, SSD would be nice, but in the size I am thinking it is a bit too much still. Supposedly a hybrid drive would be closer to a price range I could get.

[Cow Poke]

Yeah, it is really neat how far technology has progressed in my lifetime. At this point I need to get a hard drive with more space for my gaming PC. Still trying to figure out which one to get, and what is a good price for it. 8-10TB would be where I would want it for now.

SD drives have come WAY down, too!

[Cerebrum123]

Yeah, it is really neat how far technology has progressed in my lifetime. At this point I need to get a hard drive with more space for my gaming PC. Still trying to figure out which one to get, and what is a good price for it. 8-10TB would be where I would want it for now.

[Cow Poke]

a few years from now we will look back at this thread and laugh at our naivety at being impressed with only 1TB MicroSD cards and will probably have petabyte cards.

I still remember when our computers had 1,024kb of memory, but we could only access 640k. I was so proud when I discovered DR DOS which could access the "expanded memory", and load programs (especially TSR (Terminate Stay Resident) programs) in that upper memory! I could actually load up my computer, run my TSR programs, and STILL have 638k or so "free memory".

[Sparko]

Yup, there are even several cloud services offering TBs of cloud storage "for life" for a one time $59 or something.

a few years from now we will look back at this thread and laugh at our naivety at being impressed with only 1TB MicroSD cards and will probably have petabyte cards.

[Cow Poke]

Yup, there are even several cloud services offering TBs of cloud storage "for life" for a one time $59 or something.

[Sparko]

You can now get a 1TB MicroSD card.

1TB on a piece of plastic the size of your thumbnail.

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I think that is amazing.

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In other news I just bought a new NAS and stuck in two 12TB hard drives (run as Raid 1 mirroring) and already have it 25% full.