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Originally Posted by crich70
Progress indeed. I understand the 1st CD drives were very expensive to buy.
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The prices I paid for computer-related optical drives were as follows:
1995: 2x CDROM drive, € 136 (back then, fl. 300)
1998: 40x CDROM drive, € 113 (fl. 250)
1998: 6x/4x CDRW-burner, € 317 (fl. 700)
2002: 4x/4x DVDRW / 40x/16 CDRW-burner, €200
Since then, I've bought many optical drives, all DVDRW-burners, with steadily decreasing price. The latest was a DVDRW-burner for €20 to replace a defective one, and a €69 Blu-Ray burner (so I'll be able to rip American Blu-Ray discs to ISO, and re-burn them onto a blank disc, to get rid of the region encoding. Sad that I have to do this, but some movies I want to have are just not released in Europe.)
My first hard drive replacement, somewhere in 1995 or so cost around fl. 800 for the new hard drive and a new IO-controller (my old one couldn't take that 'huge' 450 MB new drive); now I buy 500GB at less than €40 (which would have been fl. 88) in the Netherlands. That is 1000x (and more) the storage capacity for around 10% of the old price.