Hardware & Technical Have the prices of 3.5" SATA III HDDs gone up recently?

[starman]

I have the opposite problem at the moment - trying to find an 80Gb PATA for a classic machine is proving horrendously expensive

Really? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160GB-IDE-3-5-3-5-inch-DESKTOP-CCTV-IDE-PATA-160-GB-Hard-Drive-HDD-7200RPM-/201967769114

 

[Patrick_68000]

Really? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160GB-IDE-3-5-3-5-inch-DESKTOP-CCTV-IDE-PATA-160-GB-Hard-Drive-HDD-7200RPM-/201967769114

He looks for one 80 GB

 

[SMcA]

I was looking at 500GB models for video storage, and they were what? £35? I swear that money got me a whole TB two or so years ago. :/

Nostalgia! The first 1 GB HDD I bought cost me about 100 GBP.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Try getting something like a 16MB SD card or DDR-1 memory

 

[Deleted member 110222]

This thread took an unexpected turn, but I still love you all.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Try getting something like a 16MB SD card or DDR-1 memory

I remember my 8 MB of SDRAM memory. Happy days

 

[Hell Razor5543]

He looks for one 80 GB

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/80GB-720...865403?hash=item4410b1d2bb:g:ogYAAOSwICpZ~i8a

 

[Patrick_68000]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/80GB-720...865403?hash=item4410b1d2bb:g:ogYAAOSwICpZ~i8a

Looks very good. Would be curious to know the opinion of Asp Explorer

 

[Gully Foyle]

Very true Patrick - and normally I would have done the exact same thing

However, the customer here insists on the exact same 80Gb IDE replacement part - and I have a sneaky suspicion as to exactly why they are trying to recover such an ancient machine

Tellllll!

 

[GJ51]

Nostalgia! The first 1 GB HDD I bought cost me about 100 GBP.

LOL - I actually have a working 5MB external IBM hard drive that was the first available hard drive expansion unit available for the original IBM PC.

Retail price?

How about $6500

 

[Patrick_68000]

LOL - I actually have a working 5MB external IBM hard drive that was the first available hard drive expansion unit available for the original IBM PC.

Retail price?

How about $6500

I could not think that the price per MB can reach of such summits

 

[EdzUp]

LOL - I actually have a working 5MB external IBM hard drive that was the first available hard drive expansion unit available for the original IBM PC.

Retail price?

How about $6500

I got the first 10Mb one for IBM xt it's a brick compared to today's stuff.

 

[Patrick_68000]

I got the first 10Mb one for IBM xt it's a brick compared to today's stuff.

We can also talk about the ENIAC computer

 

[Hell Razor5543]

I work for an EPoS support company. One of our clients use an old system that initially was fitted with 40GB drives (and the software image was created with this in mind). Later the systems had 80GB drives. The image works on these systems as well. However, fit a 160GB drive and all sorts of problems happen. Fortunately we are still able to get these drives, but it will be interesting to see what happens when the supply dries up.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Fortunately we are still able to get these drives, but it will be interesting to see what happens when the supply dries up.

Virtualise the crap out of the host system? Apart from getting the client in correct working order, finding a virtualisation environment that can still do bronze age will quickly become cheaper than trying to source New Old Antiques.