It’s incredible how much the prices have fallen and that’s how it should be. Sure, I bought the 960 close to launch but still the difference is staggering.
The 960 Evo still chugs along albeit it’s a new one because a few months after I bought it, I had to RMA it. I guess that’s what happens when you are an early adopter. I lost a few hours of work when the original 960 Evo decided to stop working but it also taught me to be more paranoia with backups.
You young fellas sit back, I’mma tell you about the time in '96 that I bought a 1GB hard drive for a thousand doll-hairs. And then later that year got 64MB of RAM for another thousand doll-hairs, and the next month the price dropped in half. I could run two java programs AT THE SAME TIME!
Our first family computer they offered to double the HDD space to 20mb for an extra $500. “You’ll never fill it up!” they claimed. My dad, being a practical guy, couldn’t figure out why he would want to pay extra for something he’d never use.
My dad got tired of struggling so he just told me the future proof a build.
He said “Max out everything” So I did.
128gb ddr4 ram, ryzen 5600 4.6ghz 12 core hyperthreaded CPU, nvidia 2080. (He wouldn’t let me get the 40x card)
curious why you would pair those specs with a mid-range cpu. wouldn’t it have made more sense to go with a ryzen 9 if you were maxing everything out?
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My father went a bit nuts and bought our first family computer some time around '85. It was an 8088 Turbo XT with a 10MB hard drive. It was something like a $3,000 computer (which would be similar to $8,500 today, with inflation). That hard drive was so big, we thought we’d never fill it. The biggest game we had at the time, Star Flight took up two 360KB floppies, and both my brother and I could each have our own copies on the hard drive, without worrying about space. It was amazing.
But, tech moves on and what was once “bleeding edge” becomes old hat. I’m pretty sure there are calculators which can emulate that entire 8088. And, 10MB is a rounding error on modern drives. I also have little doubt that, 40 years from now we’ll look back at 1TB hard drives and think “oh, how quaint”.
I once was able to store everything I needed on a couple of 100 mb Zip disks. And amazingly they didn’t fail on me despite using them all the time.
I got excited when we got a math-coprocessor for our 386 33MHz. I tried my hardest to get a sound blaster card so I didn’t have to use PC speaker to play games (namely TFX), but it was deemed too expensive for little reward.
Your parents weren’t worried about the math co-processor doing all your homework for you? That was the GPT-387? :-)
I had typewriter classes back then!!! Homework came on “photocopies” from a handcranked machine that had a lot of rollers from memory. I have no idea what it was, but it was witchcraft!
Edit: I looked it up for curiosity sake, and the “witchcraft” machine might have been called a mimeograph.
The wonderful ditto machine! Loved the smell of those copies!
First time I built a computer (late '97), I had to settle for the 850MB HDD. The 1GB was just outside my budget.
The family computer had a 40 gig hard drive until about 2008.
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r/Hardwareswap unless there’s one for Lemmy yet
This is how hardware should work! Overtime what was bleeding edge is now the norm and as such should be priced accordingly… Looking at you Nvidia
nVidia GPUs:
970GTX was 329$ in 2014
1070GTX was 379$ in 2016
2070RTX was 499$ in 2018
3070RTX was 499$ in 2020
4070RTX is 599$ in 2023
Probably, the 5070 in 2025-6 will be 650-700.
Lol a 4070 in Canada is $1200.
I mean, in europe they are more expensive, 4070RTX was about 700€ (770$). Different currencies and different taxes. And greed.
Nope. FE was 650€ at launch +shipping
its hurt i pay back in time a gtx titan x … it was 1000€. for the top of the top. and today the top line is … way fuking more…
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Just today I was wondering why I only have a 500GB sata ssd in my Laptop and then I realized that I bought it in 2018 and the price difference was just not worth it at the time. Nowadays it feels like one might as well get a 2TB nvme. If prices keep falling like this soon a 4x4TB nvme NAS will be positively cheap!
Sadly HDDs aren’t going this low
My first job was in a computer store in 1994 and a 4MB stick of RAM for a PC was $140.
Those were very important 4MB RAM sticks, you needed at least 4MB and recommended 8MB of RAM to play the just released Doom!
It’s about time. SSD prices stagnated for years!
Here are my purchases over the past years:
- 2015 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA - $164
- 2016 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB M.2 SATA - $168
- 2016 - Samsung 850 EVO 1TB M.2 SATA - $262
- 2017 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA - $198 ($30 more than 2 yrs prior)
- 2019 - Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SATA - $160 (finally a decent price on 1TB even though it was SATA)
- 2020 - Samsung 870 EVO+ 2TB NVME - $270
- 2022 - Samsung 870 EVO+ 2TB NVME - $204
- 2022 - Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SATA - $396
Today the Samsung 970 EVO+ NVME 2TB is $109. The 870 EVO 4TB SATA is $170. Each about half the price as one year ago.
I ordered a 870 EVO 4TB since all the time spent on self hosted has been eating up my NAS storage.
The 870 QVO 8TB is on for $320 today!
I bought 4TB Crucial ssd, MX500 for 87€, brand new. It was on huge sale. And 2y ago i paid almost 60€ for 512 gb same model… so yeah
Amazing to see!
By this point do USB sticks make sense anymore as opposed to a super fast SSD inside an enclosure? It seems like the former hasn’t seen any technical progress in years eitherI usually have one USB stick tied to my keys, just in case. I can’t imagine carrying an enclosed SSD everywhere with me.
They can be failry small though, no? The NVME form factor allows for something that is maybe two times longer than a usual USB stick, so it’s still reasonably small and a tad harder to lose
This is why I have a USB Hub and MicroSD cards for drives that aren’t OS related.
I have
- 256GB Mac
- 256GB “Work In Progress” microSD Card (torrents, files I am working on, encoding, etc.)
- 2 1TB MicroSD Cards for DRM Purchases (iTunes and Apple TV) + Non DRM content (content I ripped and encoded to convert to digital and podcasts, audio, video, etc.)
I just really like the portability of SD Cards and USB sticks.
I’ve had SD cards fail catastrophically though, unlike ssds and hdds.
Your experience isn’t wrong, it is more likely to happen, however, if you prioritize portability, SD Cards and USBs are great for that and inconspicuous if you go somewhere public or need to share something with someone at school without drawing too much attention.
I plan on building a new desktop sometime around black friday. Here’s hoping we’ll get some great deals like this then, too?
Don’t wait for black Friday, get the parts in pieces as you find them on sale.
Black Friday is when companies dump subpar parts to low prices just to get rid of them. Don’t bank it all on that sale.
Good call, and good idea! Duly noted.
Set your build goals now (check !buildapc@lemmy.world ) and use alerts/price trackers to see good deals. There are some good deals on Black Friday but many are bogus, its to better to check every now and then for deals.
Don’t worry guys, manufacturer’s are doing their best to cut supply to raise prices again. Gotta love them.
Pretty sure Apple still charges £300 😂
Seeing this so cheap knowing that my motherboard doesnt have nvme slot 😭
Could just get a pcie to nvme m.2 adapter, think Sabrent does a pretty good one
Though it depends on you having spare pcie slots (I’m not 100% sure but I believe the speeds should still be better than sata but you’d have to check)
Good to see the prices are going down when everything else is getting crazzy expensive.
I bought some SSD in 2019 worth of 290$ and payed with 0.5 ethereum. That would be 900+$ today kekw
It’s been this way continuously since computer memory was thought up.
Here’s a chart of memory price change since 1957
My first SSD was a 128 GB OCz Vertex3. Price comparable to the 2600K I bought it with.
