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#1 2011-09-05 03:42:28
- jji7skyline
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Price of Flash thumb-drives
I don't know about you, but I've noticed a drop in hard disk/flash memory prices. For example, you had to pay around $20 for a 4gb thumb drive around a year ago, but now you can buy one for just over $5
This is all in Australia of course.
Have you noticed this?
EDIT: HDDs have also become very cheap. Last year, you'd be happy to get 1TB for just over $100. Nowadays, you can get 2TB for that price. I think these prices have also been affected by the move to SSDs.
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#2 2011-09-05 05:51:41
Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
When I had to first get a thumb drive for school it was 256mb and cost $40. Just to let you know that thumb drive was bigger than what I needed, I only needed a 128mb drive but the 256mb was all that was left.
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#4 2011-09-05 06:59:51
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
08jackt wrote:
lol yeah i noticed that
i'm getting a 1TB portable hard drive soon
Yeah, same. I'm probably going to get one with firewire 800 if possible, but otherwise, there's a nice one with "Porche Design" on the Apple Mac Accesories store. It works for Windows computers too in case you're wondering.
I wonder when they'll start selling thunderbolt SSDs 
They'll probably be really expensive though 
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#5 2011-09-05 07:50:16
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
I can get a 4GB for $6 (USD).
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#6 2011-09-05 08:14:54
Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
About 3 years ago, I got a 1GB PNY Attaché flash drive for $10 at Wal-mart. If someone can find out if that exact model is cheaper now (at Wal-mart ), then we can know for sure.
But yea, I have noticed the price drops too. I remember reading Computer Shopper 2 years ago, and seeing an article about 750 GB hard drives being amazingly big. xD
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#7 2011-09-05 08:18:48
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
They don't have it.
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#8 2011-09-05 08:45:17
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
I've noticed that there's been a big drop in the price of laptops in the past few years. A good laptop used to cost around $1000, now you can get a very decent laptop for $700. ^^
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#9 2011-09-05 08:58:42
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
I saw a 4GB flash drive for $5.99. I think everything in electronics is a lot cheaper now. Have you guys noticed the prices on laptops? You can easily buy a dual-core laptop for $250.
TVs are also cheap too. I remember in 2007 when flat screens cost at least a thousand dollars. Now you can get a decent one for half the price 
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#10 2011-09-05 09:39:08
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
I have a flashy thumb. I got it free.
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#11 2011-09-05 21:03:27
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
undefeatedgames wrote:
I saw a 4GB flash drive for $5.99. I think everything in electronics is a lot cheaper now. Have you guys noticed the prices on laptops? You can easily buy a dual-core laptop for $250.
TVs are also cheap too. I remember in 2007 when flat screens cost at least a thousand dollars. Now you can get a decent one for half the price
TV prices have dropped dramatically too... you can get a Full HD one for around $500 here.
Medium quality notebooks cost around $700 and netbooks can be as cheap as $350...
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#13 2011-09-05 21:07:21
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kayybee wrote:
I just got an 8GB for less than $10...
If the prices are that cheap, how much will electronics be in 2 years?
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#14 2011-09-05 21:07:47
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kayybee wrote:
I just got an 8GB for less than $10...
I've just seen some 8gb drives from hong kong for $10 with free delivery
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#15 2011-09-05 21:14:10
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Well, naturally. The price of technology drops radically in the course of a year, because advances in technology occur very rapidly. Remember, according to Moore's law, the amount of transistors that can be easily placed on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. This means that especially in cases such as processing speed and storage, capabilities are able to be quickly increased with little extra cost.
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#16 2011-09-05 21:21:30
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Harakou wrote:
Well, naturally. The price of technology drops radically in the course of a year, because advances in technology occur very rapidly. Remember, according to Moore's law, the amount of transistors that can be easily placed on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. This means that especially in cases such as processing speed and storage, capabilities are able to be quickly increased with little extra cost.
We still have a laptop with 40 terabytes of storage! Wait, typo, make that 40 GIGABYTES OF STORAGE!!!
Somehow lacks the impact it did 10 years ago 
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#17 2011-09-05 21:37:03
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jji7skyline wrote:
Harakou wrote:
Well, naturally. The price of technology drops radically in the course of a year, because advances in technology occur very rapidly. Remember, according to Moore's law, the amount of transistors that can be easily placed on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. This means that especially in cases such as processing speed and storage, capabilities are able to be quickly increased with little extra cost.
We still have a laptop with 40 terabytes of storage! Wait, typo, make that 40 GIGABYTES OF STORAGE!!!
Somehow lacks the impact it did 10 years ago
I have an old Windows 98 laptop with... wait for it... A 6 GIGABYTE HARD DRIVE.
Yeah, just try to comprehend the sheer amount of storage there. You can't, can you?
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#18 2011-09-05 21:39:43
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
Harakou wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Harakou wrote:
Well, naturally. The price of technology drops radically in the course of a year, because advances in technology occur very rapidly. Remember, according to Moore's law, the amount of transistors that can be easily placed on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. This means that especially in cases such as processing speed and storage, capabilities are able to be quickly increased with little extra cost.
We still have a laptop with 40 terabytes of storage! Wait, typo, make that 40 GIGABYTES OF STORAGE!!!
Somehow lacks the impact it did 10 years agoI have an old Windows 98 laptop with... wait for it... A 6 GIGABYTE HARD DRIVE.
Yeah, just try to comprehend the sheer amount of storage there. You can't, can you?
No, really I can't
My old XP laptop has 256mb of RAM... that qualifies it as a super-computer by the way
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#20 2011-09-05 21:55:34
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Re: Price of Flash thumb-drives
Harakou wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Harakou wrote:
Well, naturally. The price of technology drops radically in the course of a year, because advances in technology occur very rapidly. Remember, according to Moore's law, the amount of transistors that can be easily placed on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. This means that especially in cases such as processing speed and storage, capabilities are able to be quickly increased with little extra cost.
We still have a laptop with 40 terabytes of storage! Wait, typo, make that 40 GIGABYTES OF STORAGE!!!
Somehow lacks the impact it did 10 years agoI have an old Windows 98 laptop with... wait for it... A 6 GIGABYTE HARD DRIVE.
Yeah, just try to comprehend the sheer amount of storage there. You can't, can you?
Hah, mine has 20!!! But then again, it's a computer.
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