Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] 100 Megabytes: $45,700

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] 100 Megabytes: $45,700 by: Cody

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:43:37 +0000

In 2007 you wrote $45,700 could buy you roughly 120 terabytes of consumer-level hard drive storage today.

Now it's early 2011 and it would buy you roughly 923 terabytes (at $99 per 2TB disk, or even cheaper). That's almost doubling every year. Nice (though, who doesn't wish it would double faster!)

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] 100 Megabytes: $45,700 by: Cinematech

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:16:23 +0000

So lets see here, at that bulk cost my 1 TB setup would cost around $457,005,700 with the adjusted inflation. It ran me around $350. Yep, I'm glad I don't live in 1981.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] 100 Megabytes: $45,700 by: Benj Edwards

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:13:07 +0000

That's a very good question, Geoff. A big database, perhaps? There were probably at least a few companies or institutions using more than 104 megabytes in 1981. In that case, they'd probably buy the big, industrial removable hard disk units, which were slightly cheaper per megabyte.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] 100 Megabytes: $45,700 by: Geoff V.

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:53:15 +0000

Less than $200 per megabyte? Talk about a steal! Good thing "volume discounts" are available. Then again, why would you need more than 104MB?

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] 100 Megabytes: $45,700 by: Stimie

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:44:12 +0000

I found this box of computer junk today at work and it had that 10 MB drive inside of it.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] 100 Megabytes: $45,700 by: Kitsunexus

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:13:14 +0000

Wow, if 1981 games were hydrgoen atoms, that HD could hold the sun. 0_0

And it'd be just about as expensive as buying the sun to boot.