10-09-2006, 01:41 AM
[quote BigGuynRusty]I guess both of you are fairly young, in the late 70's, and through most of the 1980's, the Hard Drive was constantly in the sights of RAM drives, Bubble Memory, all sorts of devices, that were less complex, and had no moving parts, and were much faster at reading, and writing data. HD size was growing very slowly, and prices were astronomical, 30 MegaBytes (YES, MegaBytes!), was $800! Then the big drive makers started making huge strides, 750 GigaByte drives are now under $500. For awhile it looked damn shaky for the Hard Drive, it has made a full recovery and is on steroids.
BGnR
I wasn't talking about how things used to be, I was talking about how things are today. Today flash memory is MUCH more expensive per Gigabyte than hard drives are. And my first hard drive was an internal 30MB that cost $475 (always on the tail end of technology - a budget shopper).
BGnR
I wasn't talking about how things used to be, I was talking about how things are today. Today flash memory is MUCH more expensive per Gigabyte than hard drives are. And my first hard drive was an internal 30MB that cost $475 (always on the tail end of technology - a budget shopper).