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1 posted on 03/03/2016 10:04:16 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Dayem! I remember the DASD I supported was 988 MB and could only get 4 of them into a full size rack. Then we upgrades to EMC Harmonix 3’s and get 10 200 mb units into a rack. That gave us all of 2 gb.


2 posted on 03/03/2016 10:10:47 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (GOPe - Enriching the consultant class while selling out their constituents.)
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To: ShadowAce; SunkenCiv

Unreal!


3 posted on 03/03/2016 10:14:12 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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And way back when, my grandad paid five hundred dollars for a 500MB hard drive for the computer he was assembling. And before that, I've seen some old ads for hard drives

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4 posted on 03/03/2016 10:18:32 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I work for a major company that skimps on back office hard drive/network space and processors. Of course, the whole system collapses every now and then resulting in hundreds of man hours of valuable lost. Technology is cheap it is the people who are expensive.


5 posted on 03/03/2016 10:18:56 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ars Technica estimates the price at $8k, based on an earlier model costing around $1k per TB and factoring in a discount.
17 posted on 03/03/2016 6:40:15 PM PST by cynwoody
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