Seagate NAS drive prices

[Brad Johnson]

Cruising New Egg and noticed Seagate Ironwolf Pro drive prices.

https://www.newegg.com/Seagate-IronWolf-NAS-Hard-Drives/EventSaleStore/ID-5901?SrchInDesc=pro

Constantly amazed at how quickly storage capacities for given form factors keep increasing. Twenty TB on a 3.5" drive? Dayum. Similarly amazed at how prices keep dropping, especially considering Ironwolf Pro drives are rated at 300TB/yr and over two million hours MTBF. Nice!

Brad

[Cliffh]

The first modern form factor hard drive I bought was $1.00 per MB, $210 for 210MB.

There's been a lot of change since then.

[WLJ]

Still remember my first HDD, ST-225R
A whole whopping 20mb Thought I would never run out of space
Have single photos that take up more space than that now
Paid $300 for it. That's $300 1985 dollars
That didn't include the ST-412 controller board, another ~$100

[lee n. field]

Still remember my first HDD, ST-225R
A whole whopping 20mb Thought I would never run out of space
Have single photos that take up more space than that now
Paid $300 for it. That's $300 1985 dollars
That didn't include the ST-412 controller board, another ~$100

$200 for a 40MB Connor SCSI drive for my Atari ST.  Plus ICD host adapter board.  1991 or 2.  I should still have a sector for sector image file of that drive.

[Hawkmoon]

Still remember my first HDD, ST-225R
A whole whopping 20mb Thought I would never run out of space

You too, eh?

Back in the days when a base-model IBM-PC came with ONE 360k floppy drive and 128k of RAM, a 20MB hard drive was Nirvana. Yes, I also thought when I got that ST225R I was getting enough storage space to last me for the rest of my [computing] life.

Silly me ...

[WLJ]

You too, eh?

Back in the days when a base-model IBM-PC came with ONE 360k floppy drive and 128k of RAM, a 20MB hard drive was Nirvana. Yes, I also thought when I got that ST225R I was getting enough storage space to last me for the rest of my [computing] life.

Silly me ...

Nowadays a bare bones W10 install ~40gb
2,000 x what that ST-225R would hold.

[HeroHog]

Still remember my first HDD, ST-225R
A whole whopping 20mb Thought I would never run out of space
Have single photos that take up more space than that now
Paid $300 for it. That's $300 1985 dollars
That didn't include the ST-412 controller board, another ~$100

Did the same, less the controller for my 8088 American Semiconductor PC Clone. Hercules Graphics card, little amber monochrome monitor, that came with a single 5¼" floppy drive and a Full Height IBM 10MEG hard drive. Said those exact same words too! Cool thing about the case: there was a "button" on either side that you pressed and then opened up the top of the case like a car hood!

[HeroHog]

BTW: Someone donate 2 of those Seagate 4tb drives to me, if ya feel like it! ;-)

[WLJ]

Did the same, less the controller for my 8088 American Semiconductor PC Clone. Hercules Graphics card, little amber monochrome monitor, that came with a single 5¼" floppy drive and a Full Height IBM 10MEG hard drive. Said those exact same words too! Cool thing about the case: there was a "button" on either side that you pressed and then opened up the top of the case like a car hood!

Mine did that
Wonder if that was the same case I had?

[Cliffh]

The first hard drive I bought, not new like the one I posted before, was a used 5MB MFM.  Got that and the controller card to install in my first computer, a monochrome monitor Tandy with one floppy drive.  I was told by the guy teaching me how to work on computers that I couldn't get it to work in the Tandy.  Got that one working and added a second 5MB drive later.

I don't miss that Tandy.

[HeroHog]

Wish I had a good pic of it. Bought it out of "Computer Shopper".

[JTHunter]

The first computer I had was a Zeos Legacy workstation that the company was planning on throwing away.  It had a 5.25" FD, a 25 mHz CPU, NO HD or OS, and 1 mb of RAM on 4 -256K 30 pin SIMS.  A computer shop across the street put in a HD, a 33 mHz CPU with a "doubler", Windows 3.1, a 3.5" FD, and 4 strips of new RAM, giving me 4 mb.  A year later, the company was throwing away more computers and there was another Zeos but this one had 4 strips of 4 mb RAM that I salvaged and added to my Zeos, giving it 20 mb RAM.
For 2 years, I went to an "internet cafe" to download assorted software (mostly games). Two years later, I got a Micron Windows 98 system with 400 mHz CPU.
Although I haven't used either of those two for over a year, I still have them.

[Devonai]

Fun fact, the Star Trek: The Next Generation technical manual states that the storage capacity of the Enterprise-D's central computer is 4 TB.