How much drive space you got?

These days, drive space are almost dime a dozen. There was a time when retail prices where around Php1USD 0.02INR 1EUR 0.02CNY 0.12 per MB and a lot of storage manufacturers (Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate, Fujitsu) are fighting teeth to teeth to deliver faster and higher capacity drives.

I have around a total of 360GB of storage space. (Make that 400GB if you add my 40GB iPod)

Back in 1999, I bought a 13GB 5400 rpm Seagate drive for about Php5,500USD 94INR 7,945EUR 89CNY 683. Now, I can get a Seagate 300GB Barracuda SATA at PC Express for Php500USD 9INR 722EUR 8CNY 62 more. That gives you 50MB per Philippine Peso (~50MB per dollar).

The 400GB and 500GB drives (7200 rpm with 8MB cache) are still a bit expensive. Villman sells them at Php13USD 0.22INR 19EUR 0.21CNY 2.5k and Php17USD 0.29INR 25EUR 0.28CNY 2.5k respectively.

That, despite the fact that Seagate has already merged with Maxtor last December.

Just wait ’til Flash drives become really cheap most laptops and PCs will have them instead of the slower EIDE/SATA drive.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

8 Comments

vance says:

18 years ago

yup storage drives are getting cheaper nowadays, like I just bought a western digital sata II drive last april which cost around 5k up now its around 5k below! (depends on the shop you bought it)

btw, for 6k you can a 16 mb cache sata 2 drive at 320 GB (seagate and western digital) though 7200 rpms not the 10k. I think at this price range you can get a parallel drive from seagate too..
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Jeff says:

18 years ago

I started with a Maxtor 6L200PO 200GB and Samsung SP0822N 80GB, but I recently picked up a Maxtor 6L250RO 250GB (16MB cache, 7200RPM) for 99$CAD (roughly 4500 Philippine Pesos, if my math is correct) for a total 530GB.

I can’t wait for the 750GB Seagate ST3750640AS to drop in price… it’s still too rich for my blood.
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Miguel says:

18 years ago

I “only” have 120 GB on my desktop (turning 2 years old soon), and 60 GB on my work laptop, but it’s still more than enough for me. Dumping old stuff you don’t need to DVD is still cheaper per gig.
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JP Loh says:

18 years ago

I have a cumulative hard disk space of 350GB. It\’s still not enough since I capture video, download ~~pr0n~~ large files and love music.

Before the year ends, terabyte hard disks will be out in the market. I remember back in the days when I considered 2GB spacious and even managed to dual-boot.
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JP Loh says:

18 years ago

Crap. It stripped the strikethrough tag.
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Elliott Back says:

18 years ago

I roll with (I think) 1.6TB of storage these days, but I want to eventually just buy some kind of NAS from Dell. Having 4 firewire, and three USB2 drives is a pain.
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jhay says:

18 years ago

Flash drives are really fast and so compact, but I heard that flash drives aren’t that good for long-term storage because they loose data over time. Is this true?
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Matt says:

17 years ago

i have a total of 1.66TB storage

1x Maxtor 500gb SATAII [internal]

3x Seagate Barracuda 250gb SATAII [1 internal, 2 external, all SATAII]

1x Western Digital 80gb [external]

1x Seagate Barracuda 80gb [external]

and am getting a Hitachi 1TB [internal]
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