Re:Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive
by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @05:45PM
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There were no consumer digital cameras when 250MB drives were common. The closest, Sony Mavicas, were still writing to analog media. Kodak was still using bulky briefcase storage units with their own hard drives. Not something the everyday "naive" computer user of the era would be investing in.
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Re:Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @03:17AM
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But when you're talking about "ever", you shouldn't be looking at what you can easily do today. Computer graphics existed. TV existed. "Ever" should include all of that.
And especially, it should occur to people that they want to mirror/replace their filing cabinets with computers. Filing cabinets that are full of both text and photos.
Re:Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive
by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:25AM
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The Casio QV-10a was released in 1995 - that was a consumer digital camera. Although I wouldn't even call 250MB "common" then based on historical prices and my memories.
Re:Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive
by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:56PM
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In '95 consumer grade computers were shipping with between 512MB and 1GB. 250 MB was common in the early 90's before the first wave of consumer digital cameras.
Re:Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive
by zimpenfish on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:56AM
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> In '95 consumer grade computers were shipping with between 512MB and 1GB.
Do you have a source for that? I bought a consumer grade computer in 1995 and it only had 120MB of disk space. And the historical prices suggest that 250MB was beyond consumer prices until ~1995.
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte suggests 250MB would have been >$500 until 1994. Which is nowhere near "consumer" price.