Sahwa to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC buildingwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up1725arrow-down111
arrow-up1714arrow-down1external-link32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC buildingwww.tomshardware.comSahwa to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square171fedilink
minus-square@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish17•2 months agoGoing back to the 90s when a few megabytes was hundreds of dollars.
minus-squarepalordrolaplinkfedilink22•2 months agoThat’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.
minus-square@Doomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoWe added 4 megs to our 486 and it was $80 a meg so $320 for the upgrade. That was back when hard drives where a little over a dollar per meg.
minus-square@zergtoshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoAre you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time? It sounds way to cheap.
minus-square@Doomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoYes, you are probably right. I think I am thinking of when I built my Pentium 100 and it was $360 for a 360 meg hard drive.
Going back to the 90s when a few megabytes was hundreds of dollars.
That’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.
We added 4 megs to our 486 and it was $80 a meg so $320 for the upgrade. That was back when hard drives where a little over a dollar per meg.
Are you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time?
It sounds way to cheap.
Yes, you are probably right. I think I am thinking of when I built my Pentium 100 and it was $360 for a 360 meg hard drive.
Or 80s, where it was kilobytes.