With all of the complaints about the high price of solid state drives I think it is time for a reality check. There's been entirely too much whining, moaning, and groaning about the perceived high cost of ssd's. It is not justified.
I purchased my first desktop computer in December 1984. It was an original IBM pc. The operating system was an early version of DOS 2.0. There were no hard disk drives for consumers. Instead, the pc came with two 5.25 in. floppy disk drives. I had to insert a floppy disk containing the OS in order to start it. I also purchased one of the first IBM word processing programs. It came on two floppy disks. Depending on what I wanted to do I had to keep swapping the two floppy disks. The original version of Flight Simulator was a freebie. It was absolutely horrible.
The following Summer PC Magazine and Computer Shopper magazines published reports about hard disk drives. A company I never heard of was making them. That company was Seagate. I went to a local computer store and inquired about the new drives. The store had brand new Seagate 10MB hard drives with an access time of 140 milliseconds. That was the only benchmark back then.
What did it cost? That 10MB Seagate hard drive cost $350.00 and installation was free.
Time to pull out the calculator and do some math.
At $350.00 for 10MB the price works out to $35.00 per MB.
There are 1,024 MB in 1 GB.
At $35.00 per MB that works out to $35,840.00 per GB.
You think you're paying too much when you pay $2.00 per GB for a solid state drive? Gimme a break!
BTW - It took 26 years to for hard disk prices to drop from $35,840.00 to $00.50 per GB. It is a pretty safe bet that the senior citizens among you will be 6 feet under and Hell will freeze over before ssd's match hard drive prices.
I purchased my first desktop computer in December 1984. It was an original IBM pc. The operating system was an early version of DOS 2.0. There were no hard disk drives for consumers. Instead, the pc came with two 5.25 in. floppy disk drives. I had to insert a floppy disk containing the OS in order to start it. I also purchased one of the first IBM word processing programs. It came on two floppy disks. Depending on what I wanted to do I had to keep swapping the two floppy disks. The original version of Flight Simulator was a freebie. It was absolutely horrible.
The following Summer PC Magazine and Computer Shopper magazines published reports about hard disk drives. A company I never heard of was making them. That company was Seagate. I went to a local computer store and inquired about the new drives. The store had brand new Seagate 10MB hard drives with an access time of 140 milliseconds. That was the only benchmark back then.
What did it cost? That 10MB Seagate hard drive cost $350.00 and installation was free.
Time to pull out the calculator and do some math.
At $350.00 for 10MB the price works out to $35.00 per MB.
There are 1,024 MB in 1 GB.
At $35.00 per MB that works out to $35,840.00 per GB.
You think you're paying too much when you pay $2.00 per GB for a solid state drive? Gimme a break!
BTW - It took 26 years to for hard disk prices to drop from $35,840.00 to $00.50 per GB. It is a pretty safe bet that the senior citizens among you will be 6 feet under and Hell will freeze over before ssd's match hard drive prices.