Re: World of Warcraft used to be under 50 GB install

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:30:11 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

Just thinking - first floppy disk $10 for a SS/SD 160KB 5.25"
Now you pay that (or not much more) for a Terabyte USB stick.

I don't think I ever paid that much for an individual floppy disk, but
I do remember paying $20-30 for a five pack of disks (I don't remember
the density, but I'm pretty sure they were double sided). I treated
those disks like they were gold. Assuming they were single-density
(which is likely, since they were for my Apple II) that came to around
$19 per megabyte, the equivalent cost of a terrabyte would come to
slightly more than $18 million USD. Yowza!

If ever I got my hands on a time machine, I wouldn't use it to kill
Hitler or learn the secrets of history. No, I'd go back in time a few
decades to flaunt how great modern technology is to us primitive
cavemen of the 80s. "Lookit how much storage I have! Be amazed at the
graphics I can render real-time! My CPU has 32 cores! Nyahahahaha!"

Which is probably why they don't let me have a time machine ;-)

Well ok around $130 for the Terabyte stick, still a good deal since
13x160KB is only 2.08 MB and the stick is way easier to carry around.

It's amazing how quickly storage costs have dropped. I was actually
looking into the same thing the other day and saw a 1TB SSD for <$50.

Like I said earlier, I eagerly await the time in the not-so-far-future
when I can install all my current games on a single drive, just
because drives have gotten so large and so inexpensive that why not?

But, like you said, once that happens, applications, games and
operating systems will quickly expand to make use of the added space.
You used to be able to fit a whole OS in the CORNER of a floppy disk!
Now you need 20+GB. God knows what we'll need in ten years.