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Re:Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:56PM (#16431912)
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.
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Re:Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive by zimpenfish on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:56AM (#16436719)
> 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.

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