Paid $465.50 for a 40MB hard drive from a Computer shopper vendor in 1989. Pathetic I still remember the price and the occasion. Several people on my dorm floor had to come by and behold the miracle of 40MB:)
Check this out:
Western Digital Caviar GP WD10EACS 1TB 5400 to 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
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My old group’s first hard drive was a 10 mB Winchester for a DEC system - total cost for drive and controller came out to $100 per mB. A 750 gB drive I bought last week for a desktop system came to $0.00027 per mB.
I remember saying, “Man, I’ll NEVER fill this baby up!”.................
I was using dual floppies on a 3.4mhz clone when the guy in the office next to me got an IBM with a 20MB HD. My first comment was “why in the h_ll would you ever need that much storage?”