My first 13 year old SSD from back in 2010

UberTiger · 9 Dec 2023 at 00:38

Just logged into my old computer shop account in the States for the first time in over a decade, not sure if I can state the name, but I'm a chicken, so I won't say.

Anyway, point is I thought it was pretty neat to see what I paid for a 60GB SSD back then, not even enough to install windows 11 as a boot disk these days

Funny compared to the 1TB, 2TB and 4TB+ drives you see now!

mrk · 9 Dec 2023 at 01:26

May 2012 from OcUK according to Gmail, which seems accurate I guess.

As a comparison, I paid £140 for the 2TB 990 Pro not long ago :cry:

nlel1975 · 9 Dec 2023 at 08:45

You got a good deal on that Samsung 256GB 830. I paid £235.39 ex VAT for a Crucial M4 256GB on the 03/12/11. I guess prices came down a lot in the 6 months after I ordered mine.

Snapshot · 9 Dec 2023 at 09:30

From January 2011:

OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot 90GB 3.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

1

£124.99

plus VAT so £149.99 total

I paid £123.99 + VAT for my Samsung 830 in September 2012 and I still have it! I've also still got a couple of OCZ Vertex 3 & 4 drives.....

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Dec 2023 at 09:32

Just shows you not to jump in first as you become the early adopter costing you a lot more for products.

nlel1975 · 9 Dec 2023 at 09:35

GaryTheSnail said:
Just shows you not to jump in first as you become the early adopter costing you a lot more for products.

Yeah I paid £207.49 ex VAT for my Corsair MP510, Force Series, 1920GB M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 Gen3 SSD on the 14th July 2019. At the time 2TB SSD drives were not the norm.

john_smith · 9 Dec 2023 at 09:37

Still less than Apple upgrade prices for the same GB amount today.

andshrew · 9 Dec 2023 at 11:46

It's always fun to look back at how much storage prices have changed over time.

I paid around £130 for a 30GB HDD late 90s/early 2000s, while paid £195 for a 4TB Gen 4 NVME this month.

nlel1975 · 9 Dec 2023 at 12:11

My first PC had a 170MB hard drive, I upgraded that to a 3.2GB hard drive in 1995. It cost me around £240 IIRC. It was the first thing I ever bought mail order too.

rare · 9 Dec 2023 at 12:34

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From the July 2007 copy of Custom PC that I’m currently reading…!

UberTiger · 9 Dec 2023 at 12:35

So I paid $2 per GB for that SSD. That would have made a 1TB drive cost $2k, a 2TB drive cost $4k or a 4TB $8k :eek:

*Tim Cook Furiously takes notes to make sure their current pricing strategy matches*

UberTiger · 9 Dec 2023 at 12:37

rare said:
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From the July 2007 copy of Custom PC that I’m currently reading…!

£7k for that 18TB! Didn't realise they were even available back in 2007, probably just blanked that out due to the ludicrous price!

EDIT: I'm an idiot, I figured that must have been 18TB, but nope, it is 18GB :eek:

UberTiger · 9 Dec 2023 at 12:39

rare said:
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From the July 2007 copy of Custom PC that I’m currently reading…!

Nice 10,000th post

rare · 9 Dec 2023 at 12:56

UberTiger said:
Nice 10,000th post

Thanks I didn’t even realise haha.

Those 2007 prices are wild, SSD’s took a few years until they started to become viable I think. Not many people were building PC’s even high end ones in 2007 with an SSD.

And now you can get a SATA SSD for barely any money. Ah progress.

Although back then a flagship GPU was about £400, now it’s £1500-£2000 so…not everything has got better!

UberTiger · 9 Dec 2023 at 13:00

Tell me about it!
This was my next order after the SSD. Can we get $50 graphics cards back please?!

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Dec 2023 at 13:27

UberTiger said:
Tell me about it!
This was my next order after the SSD. Can we get $50 graphics cards back please?!

You can get them but you can't even play sims 2 at full res on them :cry:

FredFlint · 9 Dec 2023 at 14:36

My first HD was a 60MB for an Amiga 1200, it was so massive at the time. First SSD was an Intel 60GB.

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Dec 2023 at 14:51

FredFlint said:
My first HD was a 60MB for an Amiga 1200, it was so massive at the time. First SSD was an Intel 60GB.

My first was a 20gb ide drive. Didn’t use full on had drive storage until windows 95.

andy_mk3 · 9 Dec 2023 at 14:55

Despite their reputation, I never had an OCZ drive die on me. Still got a 3.5" OCZ drive that's only came out of 24/7 use about a year ago. Also still got an OCZ Agility 3 60GB I use in an old Windows 7 laptop.

adidan · 9 Dec 2023 at 15:12

GaryTheSnail said:
Just shows you not to jump in first as you become the early adopter costing you a lot more for products.

I'd generally agree but I have no regrets spending about £132 on a 64Gb Crucial M225 in 2010 - the jump from HDD to SSD was the biggest standout change in the usability of my pc I can say I've ever had.