My first 13 year old SSD from back in 2010

[Deleted member 77746]

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.

I didn’t jump ship until the price was halved per GB. Up to the person that spends the money at the end of the day.

 

[adidan]

I didn’t jump ship until the price was halved per GB. Up to the person that spends the money at the end of the day.

True enough.

It was, and is, very unlike me. I never jumped on dvd rw and laughed at a friend at work in the very early 00's (or even 99?) who ordered a blu ray drive from the states for silly money.

I seem to think I picked up my SSD after they'd come down in price a little but yeah it's a lot of money for the storage

Still, no regrets on that one.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

True enough.

It was, and is, very unlike me. I never jumped on dvd rw and laughed at a friend at work in the very early 00's (or even 99?) who ordered a blu ray drive from the states for silly money.

I seem to think I picked up my SSD after they'd come down in price a little but yeah it's a lot of money for the storage

Still, no regrets on that one.

£300 for the very first no speed cd writers. Someone I built a pc for wanted one and got 1000 cake pack of cds on top. Was downloading songs off Kazaa and selling them. Made well over 20 times his money purchasing the kit then stopped doing it when DVDs out and the prices of burners come down to 1/8 of the cost.

Then started doing films. I don’t speak to them any more. They moved away and I have no idea where they went.

 

[Snapshot]

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.

Hmm, not sure. The jump from cassette tape to 10MB HDD on my Acorn Atom was pretty dramatic.....

As an aside, how many here remember PCs being AT internally before ATX was released?

 

[adidan]

Hmm, not sure. The jump from cassette tape to 10MB HDD on my Acorn Atom was pretty dramatic.....

As an aside, how many here remember PCs being AT internally before ATX was released?

Lol we didn't have that sort of money back then. I have fond memories of screeching tapes loading.

One of my mates at school's dad got one of those printers that printed on a foil type material, for a ZX81 (?) iirc. I thought that was pointless and would never catch on

 

[smilingcrow]

I recall 1x CD burners dropping to £600 in the mid 90s, which is £1,200 with inflation.
I also recall a colleague buying a 15" 1024x768 TFT for over a grand at the turn of the century and the picture quality was poor.
Don't tell Jensen or it may give him ideas.

 

[Jay85]

These hit home abit... 2012-2013 prices

 

[Deleted member 77746]

And that’s probably worth £50 right now.

When you look it like that is it really worth splashing out.

 

[chaparral]

I Can't find how much i paid or what year it was for my first 128GB Crucial SSD , But still have it being used as the main C drive in a second PC in the house


But i found the details for my Crucial CT250BX100 250GB SSD which i paid £49 for in March 2015
8 years later and i still have it in my Main PC system being used as small storage drive (E)

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I Can't find how much i paid or what year it was for my first 128GB Crucial SSD

But i found the details for my Crucial CT250BX100 250GB SSD which i paid £49 for in March 2015
8 years later and i still have it in my system being used as small storage drive

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I'm on 256gb ssd and a 1TB hdd for storage. I paid £15 for the ssd and £20 for the 1TB. That was about 5 years ago.

 

[Mr Evil]

My first SSD was a 4GB Compact Flash card that cost £12.77 in 2008. Those things had no wear-levelling, so it hit the endurance limit eventually. Real SSDs were too expensive for me at the time. I was an early adopter because I wanted to reduce the noise from my server, and HDDs were the loudest parts.

 

[chaparral]

I'm on 256gb ssd and a 1TB hdd for storage. I paid £15 for the ssd and £20 for the 1TB. That was about 5 years ago.

I remember paying £200 for my first 200GB IBM HDD in am guessing was the early 2000’s, Was a lot of money in them days
Also remember paying a small fortune for some Western digital raptor HHD’s back in the day

Anyone else remember the Western digital VelociRaptor hard drives which if I remember right spin at 10,000rpm

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[Deleted member 77746]

Anyone else remember the Western digital VelociRaptor hard drives which if I remember right spin at 10,000rpm

I had two of these in stripe at the time was great.

 

[Removed User 345456]

Got my 2TB Corsair MP600 PRO XT - the one with the beast sized heatsink, for the price of the same one without the heatsink, thanks to a rival companies today only sale and free next day delivery, not bad for £136! It was cheap at the normal price tbf for something as stupidly fast/mad amounts of read/write lifespan. So couldn't say no.
This rig is only turned on to play games, so this is ample room for a decent number of massive install size games

Out of interest, what lifespan have you guys got out of your ssd's? I tend to buy brand new and my first brand new 1 was around hmm 8-9 years ago IIRC, and it's still going now in a mates macbook pro. I have a used, used ones that I've got free with stuff, but always use brand new on anything I care about despite still backing everything up.

HDD's always seem to die for me at the most ignorant times, like twice I've had it happen either a couple weeks/month before I could afford a backup drive, for a massive drive I'd bought that year to store everything on to replace an old previous one.

 

[chaparral]

I had two of these in stripe at the time was great.

I just had a look in my other PC and am still using a Raptor HDD in it (The Drive dated 2006 )

 

[Deleted member 77746]

^^ niceeeeee

 

[nlel1975]

Here's my current storage...

Got my new 4TB SSD in there as main drive and my old 1.92TB bought in July 2019 for £207.49 in there as well thanks to a PCIe x4 M2 adapter. I've got 5.92TB storage in total, that's plenty already have 19 games installed and only using 1011GB.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I don’t install many games I stay away from big installs.

 

[chaparral]

Here's my current storage...

Got my new 4TB SSD in there as main drive and my old 1.92TB bought in July 2019 for £207.49 in there as well thanks to a PCIe x4 M2 adapter. I've got 5.92TB storage in total, that's plenty already have 19 games installed and only using 1011GB.

I always try to have the main windows drive as the smaller drive as i find it far more easy to backup & Format for a fresh windows install

I really want an all M.2 setup but i want a three drive setup like this

1TB or 2TB windows drive
4TB storage drive
8TB Games drive

If i could get a faster internet connection then i wouldn't need such a huge game drive.

 

[darael]

I was late to the SSD party when I bought my Samsung 840 Pro 256GB drive in June 2014 for £137.99. I supposed I wanted to let the technology mature before committing to unchartered waters.

The above drive still works now, I just use it for backing up my important files. I don't just use the one drive of course, it's one of my several backup drives.