Huge size of GOG games

[Erik_Twice]

I am not arguing, I am just trying to find estimates to remember data usage back in '99. I still have hard time believing 40GB were around, seems a lot.

It was the most common size. I got my second computer in 1998 or 1999 and it had 36,4Gb of space. It was a Pentium III 600MHz, which was pretty average, nothing groundbreaking.

I can see a School ordering 40GB hard drives for computer labs to save money. Thats why I am having some difficulty believing it.

Schools get ripped off all the time when it comes to computers. If you just need to surf the internet or type any post-486 computer will do yet they insist in spending 2000€ per shitty computer with 256MB of RAM.

[isiolia]

I am not arguing, I am just trying to find estimates to remember data usage back in '99. I still have hard time believing 40GB were around, seems a lot.

It was the most common size. I got my second computer in 1998 or 1999 and it had 36,4Gb of space. It was a Pentium III 600MHz, which was pretty average, nothing groundbreaking.

Honestly, I'm with king on the timeline there. The machine I got starting college, which most certainly '98, was a Pentium II 350Mhz, which was still a fairly high tier machine. It had 128 MB of RAM and a 6GB HDD. Not too low end on those either. I got a second 6GB HDD at Christmastime, which wasn't high end, but was still something like a $90 purchase.

Two years (or so) later when I built a new machine, it was a Pentium III 866Mhz with a 30GB IBM Deathstar (which got RMA'ed twice).

Also, based on processor timelines, the first Pentium III 600Mhz debuted in August 1999. Storage, at the time, was topping out more in the ~25GB range though (here).

My guess would be late '99 or early 2000 for the specs you gave, assuming the specs were average for the time. By summer 2000, 40GB was fairly common, and the Coppermine PIIIs had launched (late '99) with the 600Mhz part at the lower end of the range instead of top of the line.

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@MrPopo

If that is the case then there should be some kind of indicator to show the wear on the SSD just like I can see it on my tires. This way we wont have surprise death of the storage.

@General_Norris

Now that you mention 600mhz , I remember when I heard of the 200mhz and how fast it was going to be. 200mhz processor was like the processor from the future, but it was here now, it was unstoppable

Funny how slow it is today by our standards. The funny thing is that it used to run pretty recent games like 3D and even full Office Suits. Not sure why phones/tablets today cant do that.

@isiolia

25GB is something a bit closer to what I had in mind. But even this size is pretty amazing. I remember my '95 computer had like 500mb of storage. Pretty jaw dropping that the average hard drive was expanded 50x in only 4 years. If that would happen today then we would have 50TB hard drives for like $100

but back then , technology was advancing in such a rate that computers were literally almost obsolete in 4 years. Just think '96 computer compared to 2000 one, or 2000 to 2004.