Found an old invoice from 1999 for a 10GB hard drive that cost $350

I was cleaning out a drawer at the shop yesterday and found a receipt from a repair job my old boss did in 1999. It listed a 10GB IDE hard drive with a price of $350. I had to look it up online to make sure I was reading it right, and yeah that was normal back then. Makes me think about how much storage we take for granted now. Has anyone else run into old pricing that made you do a double take?

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amy_foster5610d ago

Ha, $350 for a 10GB drive? That's like paying for a whole new phone just to store a couple of MP3s. I remember when I first got a 40GB external drive around 2005 and thought I was set for life. Now my cat's photo album on the cloud is probably bigger than that whole 1999 hard drive. Technology really did a number on our wallets back then.

cole_robinson9d ago

And your cat's cloud album probably costs way less per month than that drive cost back then, too. I remember buying a 20GB iPod and thinking I'd never fill it up. Now I accidentally download more than that just updating my phone's operating system. My music library from 2005 is probably smaller than the system files on my current laptop. We really were out here paying luxury prices for what's basically a fancy USB stick today.