Peffse

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[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

exactly. Thank you.

Back in 2012 an affordable $40 flash drive was 1GB. Now $40 gets you a 512GB.

$90 would have netted you a 2GB full-size SD card. Now you get a 1TB MicroSD with adapter

$80 would get you 1TB in spinning rust in 2012... now, with $80 you get... 1TB or if you stretch the budget a little, 2TB. But what if you own a bunch of games like Ark Survival Evolved that take up 435GB of space? Shell out $649

Back when I bought the 1TB, I installed the entire steam library I owned onto it. Now I can't get more than 6-7 new titles installed. I'm ignoring how insanely fast drives have gotten over the years, but my complaint is storage.

EDIT: For the sake of comparison outside my complaint of SSD sizing, spinning rust at $80 today is just 4TB at a lower 5400rpm instead of 7200rpm.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

fair point, even the MicroSD market would target the mobile user and not so much a desktop.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One step above what I had back in 2012? What exactly does that say about progress in capacity?

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I refuse to believe there isn't much demand for it when we have MicroSD cards approaching 2TB.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (19 children)

I just want bigger drives... I feel like we've been stuck at 1TB for at least a decade.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I'd take that deal. My touch screen died in my car and guess what can't control it? The steering wheel buttons, despite having full directional/enter/return.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

At that age I figured out that I could bypass the policy restrictions on my computer by unplugging the Ethernet cable right after login. Gave me full local admin.

A year or so prior to that I figured out that if you viewed IE's temporary internet files and just backspaced your way up, you can access the otherwise restricted C:, where I found other kids had already installed games onto.

No way this works for a full school year.