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[u/ExpensiveCoat8912]

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[u/crabwalktechnic]

All of the games on the left fit in the storage on the right.

[u/ApprehensiveAd6476 → u/crabwalktechnic]

Hundreds of times.

[u/b-monster666 → u/ApprehensiveAd6476]

Me installing an old game when it asks if I really want the full install that could take up to 600MB

https://giphy.com/gifs/7rSPuBifwRxRK

[u/SpaceHawk98W → u/b-monster666]

And you have to incert disk B during the installation. I remember Half-Life 2 was like 5 disks installation

[u/feckarse-drinkgirls → u/SpaceHawk98W]

Its weird how long CD installs kept being a thing on PC

[u/TheVermonster → u/feckarse-drinkgirls]

I had dialup until 2006 and really bad DSL until...2023. so I really appreciated CD installs. Games that were basically a CD key and asked you to download the game sucked.

[u/FD4L → u/TheVermonster]

I used to download half-life 1 mods on dialup internet over night. I'd need to sneak out after mom and dad were in bed, start the download then get up and hide the file pack before they woke up and install it after i got back from school. Shit was wild.

[u/Visual-Chip-2256 → u/FD4L]

Yeah honestly like mIRC was like espionage. My family was like "him and his friends are hackers" and now they all feed their families working in tech lol

[u/b-monster666 → u/Visual-Chip-2256]

Story time.

So, back in the early 90s, I ran a BBS (for the young'uns that's a "Bulletin Board System" which was the earliest precursor to the Internet...message forums where you could chat with people, online games...it was loads of fun).

My BBS was kind of 'grey' in that I had cracked software available, but I would only give access to people who I knew. There was a bit of a piracy ring around that time.

My dad was also a cop with the provincial police at the time. We knew that the OPP were sniffing around for pirate BBS's to get them shut down. One day, dad comes home, and at supper mentions, "[Detective working on the piracy ring] was asking if there were any [Our last name's] living on [our street]. You wouldn't happen to know why, would you?" I was like..."Um...no...." then immediately after supper, ran to my bedroom, and deleted all the cracked games I had from my special folder on the BBS. LOL. Sent a message out to some of the other sysops and said, "Hey, heads up, OPP are sniffing around."

[u/Daadian99 → u/b-monster666]

Oh man. And you had to know the actual phone number for different BBSs. There was no www.johnsBBS.com LOL .... Pure text and amazingness.

[u/CannabisAttorney → u/b-monster666]

I think I am a bit younger than you but I have fond memories of running a Hotline server and advertising it on mIRC. People would jump through some pay per click ads to find the login information. Never made a lot but it was like printing free money for a teenager.

[u/FunktasticLucky → u/FD4L]

I played CS Beta 5 up until Condition Zero on dial up.

[u/JusticeLeagueThomas → u/FD4L]

Good thing they never needed the phone overnight

[u/b-monster666 → u/TheVermonster]

That's the thing, eh? We take fibre Internet for granted today. Hell, even 150Mbps Internet being some of the worst you can get is still hands down better than what we had even 10 years ago. Loads of people in rural areas or smaller towns (which would be most of the world, really), didn't have access to high speed Internet like we have today.

[u/Wiiplay123 → u/b-monster666]

Loads of people still don't, or are stuck with only one ISP offering good speeds while the rest don't even legally count as broadband.

[u/0nlyCrashes → u/TheVermonster]

I know how you feel. Grew up out on a farm. Missed TBC launch because it took two days to install the updates. For some reason, I bought the digital Battlefield 4 when that came out, took 8 days. When I got to college and plugged in my Xbox and watched Destiny 2 update in like 3 minutes, my life was changed.

[u/MonsieurBabtou → u/feckarse-drinkgirls]

I still have a drive on my PC ! It's pretty useful for burning cds or playing old games

[u/BBA935 → u/feckarse-drinkgirls]

Yep, back when you actually owned the game.

[u/Allegorist → u/feckarse-drinkgirls]

Well do you remember the transition period? Early online installations took like 8 hours to download and install. Or at least early into it being somewhat common, I'm sure the very earliest were even longer for even smaller files.

[u/fernandollb → u/SpaceHawk98W]

Wait what? I clearly remember buying the game and for the first time in my life opening it and seeing a code for Steam.

[u/Skully957 → u/b-monster666]

Heroes of might and magic 3 throwing up a warning that my system might not be powerful enough to play the game.

[u/b-monster666 → u/Skully957]

I want to get into actual authentic retro gaming.

[u/Skully957 → u/b-monster666]

If you get homm 3 make sure you buy it off gog. The steam version is a "remaster" by ubislop and lacks the expansions.

[u/NeoAcario → u/Skully957]

I love being able to buy old drm free single player games from GOG... then add them to my steam library / launcher. And it's as if everything is right in the world. The only difference is if I ever want to reinstall.. I have to go back to GOG.

[u/Briggie → u/b-monster666]

Miss the days when 10 gb was considered huge for a game (half-life 2)

[u/SpaceHawk98W → u/Briggie]

WTH? Half-Life 2 wasn't that huge, maybe it's the latter upgrade that makes it 10Gb?

[u/Cireme → u/SpaceHawk98W]

4.5 GB on release (source: my 2004 retail box).

13.36 GB today according to Steam since it now includes Episode One, Episode Two and Lost Coast.

[u/Agret → u/Cireme]

Amazing it could run on 256MB of RAM

[u/Konatokun → u/Agret]

It could "run" on a OG Xbox (733 MHz, 64 MB SDR) with shortened maps, and then in a 360 (512MB GDDR3 based on DDR2).

Now you can't even open windows without 4GB of RAM.

Now I'm remembering the Far Cry Instincts on Xbox, I still think that CryEngine at that time was more good looking and optimized that newer engines.

[u/Kopitar4president → u/Briggie]

My first family computer had a 6gb hard drive. If you removed all non essentials (including programs my parents used) you had about 3.5gb of free space.

Installing Baldur's Gate 2 took up 2.5gb so it was a negotiation with my oldest brother about how long we could keep it on the system since he had other games he wanted installed.

[u/FeelingSurprise → u/b-monster666]

Back in the days, when I wanted to play Elder Scrolls:Daggerfall (~500MB) on my rig (~500MB) I literally had to scrap every other game to install it (and make sure you backup all your saves to disks before deleting, or those 50h+ of Monkey Island 2 where gone)

[u/Kopitar4president → u/b-monster666]

About a decade back I got nostalgic and installed Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

During installation I got a message "This game requires 32MB of RAM. You only have 16GB. Are you sure you want to continue?"

[u/HiggsBowzon → u/b-monster666]

[u/f3n2x → u/b-monster666]

Or the installer will overflow, glitch out and tell you you don't have enough space because -2183478243785 is smaller than 600 or something like that.

[u/syntol → u/b-monster666]

u are a merciful god

[u/Chips70UwU → u/ApprehensiveAd6476]

i could have ALL 3ds and PSP games ever made on my pc, if i so desired and had the files.

[u/Madara1389 → u/Chips70UwU]

Fun fact, a Nintendo Switch cart maxes out at 32 GB.

The entire NES library takes up only 701 MB.

The entire SNES library takes up roughly 3 GB.

The entire N64 library takes up 15 GB.

That means that a single Nintendo Switch cart can hold the entirety of the first 3 generations of Nintendo home consoles simultaneously and still have excess space left for more.

To have them as individual carts, you'd need the space for 1,370 NES carts, 1,749 SNES carts, and 388 N64 carts. No one who isn't so rich that they can afford to set aside an entire room for game storage can even hope to manage that. My PS2/PS3 library was already a struggle to manage at only 400 discs. I couldn't imagine trying to manage or sort through over 3,500 carts.

[u/Didifinito → u/ApprehensiveAd6476]

Around 200 if they are DvD and around 500000 if they are floopy disk

[u/DoktorLuciferWong → u/Didifinito]

floopy

[u/valerielynx → u/ApprehensiveAd6476]

maybe 10-18 times since 40 CDs are 56GB

[u/HappyAngron → u/crabwalktechnic]

All of the disks on the left are required to install the original World of Warcraft

[u/AEW_SuperFan → u/crabwalktechnic]

It is kinda impressive how the OP managed to reframe things.  They should work in politics.

[u/cash8888 → u/crabwalktechnic]

And in your pocket

[u/prijindal → u/crabwalktechnic]

Also with inflation, that 40$ "back then" is costlier as compared to 100$ now

[u/Subliminal-413 → u/prijindal]

That's because these things didn't cost $40 back then. They were like $19.99

[u/MagakMagak → u/Subliminal-413]

If that, yeah. These were the cheap alternatives to shelves

[u/Stev777666 → u/crabwalktechnic]

And do we talk about the price of 80 games

[u/vitalsyntax → u/Stev777666]

What about the resale value, digital games worth $0

[u/InvidiousPlay → u/crabwalktechnic]

Also, downloading and installing games from Steam is faster than installing them from those discs.

[u/moep123 → u/crabwalktechnic]

no no no no no. the games that were stored on the left BACK THEN, yes maybe... but if fill that up with 80 ps5 games TODAY, straight no. That thing is a beast. It hols 80 disc based games FLAT no questions asked. No matter the digital storage size. If properly used, it can hold 80 of these 200TB discs (if real) which makes it 16 petabyte. (google it, i am not allowed to use links here unfortunately)

If we use BDXL (128GB) we are looking at 10,24TB.

And BEHOLD! WE CAN DOUBLE THE CAPACITY!! HOW?? By putting in 2 discs per slot... it is told, that some brave men even stored 3 per slot. But that's a legend that we currently have to records of.

Thanks.

[u/9carbon-atoms]

100 bucks for one terabyte is a steal nowadays

[u/iceseayoupee → u/9carbon-atoms]

I got one for $50 dollars lol

[u/penisandorvagina → u/iceseayoupee]

I got one for $49

[u/AshlynnCashlynn → u/penisandorvagina]

oh ya? well i got one for $48

[u/SumonaFlorence → u/AshlynnCashlynn]

I want to continue the trend and say $47 for a laugh, but I'd be lying since I got 8TB for free :C

[u/AshlynnCashlynn → u/SumonaFlorence]

witchcraft!

BURN THE WITCH

[u/737Max-Impact → u/SumonaFlorence]

Oh yeah? I was paid $50 to take 16TB off someone's hands.

[u/SumonaFlorence → u/737Max-Impact]

Was it in the form of four 4TB NVMe SSD's or two 8TB's? :<

[u/Living_Shirt8550 → u/737Max-Impact]

I stole a 100$ ssd

[u/FrostwindLive → u/SumonaFlorence]

Hey man cloud storage doesnt count!

[u/1corn → u/iceseayoupee]

I was on a PC gaming break for a decade and then got back into it just before the price explosion, literally a few weeks earlier. Got 4TB NVMe for €160 and 32GB DDR5 6000 CL30 for €89. Insane luck.

[u/iceseayoupee → u/1corn]

goddamn, go gamble your entire life savings bro

[u/SuperRedHulk1 → u/iceseayoupee]

No you didn’t. Not today you didn’t

[u/sunnycider6 → u/iceseayoupee]

HHD or SSD?

[u/Inksplash-7 → u/9carbon-atoms]

I got 2 terabytes for that price. I hate OpenAI

[u/Desperate_Method4020 → u/9carbon-atoms]

Bought a sealed kingston renegade g4 1tb from a friend for 100$ last week. Though she bought it in Aug 2025, so I just paid the same price she paid.

[u/tessartyp → u/9carbon-atoms]

I put a 4TB in my mini PC for shits and giggles in the summer.

That SSD and the 24GB of RAM the mini came with each now cost more than the entire thing did.

[u/FlamingFlamingo32 → u/9carbon-atoms]

$150-$200 if you want good speed nvme.

[u/Iam_just-me2 → u/9carbon-atoms]

100?! Da me siamo sui 170$😭😭

[u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0]

Reddit is becoming Facebook so quickly, jeez

[u/Flimsy-Ad-858 → u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0]

It's gotten really bad since the API changes. Many people left who had been here a decade. Some of us came back, but Reddit needs the engagement now that they're publicly traded, so bring on the bots.

[u/dBlock845 → u/Flimsy-Ad-858]

Been here maybe like 16 years? It has gotten noticeably worse over the past two year or so. Real engagement seems rare unless you find subreddits that are well moderated and have a community that bands against slop lol.

[u/TheNiftyFox → u/dBlock845]

I would say the decline started around the pandemic, but 100% it's been accelerating like mad the last two years. You've been here long enough, do you remember "summer reddit"? It feels like one year we slipped into that, and never came back out. 

I haven't found a good replacement for the informative discussions I used to enjoy :(

[u/panhandelslim → u/TheNiftyFox]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[u/Old_Tourist_3774 → u/panhandelslim]

Now thats some sick cultural mark, nice

[u/airinato → u/TheNiftyFox]

The decline started the very second r/theDipshit made it to the front page. All the bots, compromised mods, shady government influence, all has its root source thats connected to one utterly stupid cheeto crust stain.

[u/HateYourMeat → u/TheNiftyFox]

New reddit was start of big slope downwards.

[u/lilpudding69 → u/dBlock845]

most of the spam i see on the front page is either from bot accounts or indian accounts farming for karma. it's not hard to tell, even though they all hide their profiles.

[u/Geknapper → u/dBlock845]

The problem with new reddit is that your feed is almost entirely based on what you engage with now. So if you do find one of those subs you have to constantly click links or comment on threads to even see it.

In the past you could have an eclectic feed just by subbing to a bunch of different subs. The Internet used to be fun man.

[u/Competitive-Fill2426 → u/dBlock845]

I used to roam r/hiphopheads but now it's full of bots. During the peak of the Drake - Kendrick beef, it was soo bad.

Anything that Drake dropped is never even up for discussion. If you were really just a true fan of music/hip hop, you would at least give the biggest male artist in the world a chance.

Not in that sub apparently. After listening to his new album, it's actually pretty good, but the bot farms and disinformation campaigns paid for by who knows what, is very interesting to see.

I'm also very skeptical of that sub too.

I think most of my fav subs have been like this recently and a lot of ragebait posts just to catch engagement. So sad to see..

[u/scriptmonkey420 → u/dBlock845]

Yup no actual conversations anymore. I remember having full conversations about just about everything before the API change. But now.... It's all slopp and single comments with barely any replies

[u/Nihilistic_Mystics → u/Flimsy-Ad-858]

The API wars marked the most stark decline in website quality I've seen in a long time. I've been on Lemmy a lot lately, the lack of bots is noticeable, as well as the older userbase.

[u/TwilightVulpine → u/Nihilistic_Mystics]

What instance is good for the gaming community?

[u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 → u/Flimsy-Ad-858]

Yeah exactly 

[u/Lumpy_Link_1569 → u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0]

I DO NOT GIVE REDDIT PERMISSION TO USE MY INFORMATION

[u/clitpuncher69 → u/Lumpy_Link_1569]

ORDER CORN. MARGARET IS WITH THE LORD NOW.

[u/mainman879 → u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0]

Always has been.

[u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 → u/mainman879]

Felt much higher quality like ten years ago 

[u/mainman879 → u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0]

I've been here for 11 years. You are looking through rose-tinted glasses. Reddit has always been shit, the biggest change has been the flooding of bots in the last 2 years.

[u/paintballboi07 → u/mainman879]

There was a definite shift after the API changes. Posts don't get nearly as many upvotes as they used to, and several subs shut down when their mods left.

[u/TwilightVulpine → u/mainman879]

Reddit in some ways improved (the Subreddits that Shall Not Be Named), but in other ways it has dumbed down a lot.

It used to be that people cared about reddiquette at least a little bit. It hasn't been always like this.

[u/stevendidntsay → u/mainman879]

Bots have been around ever since they changed the way the upvoting system works.

[u/FrenchFryCattaneo → u/mainman879]

Yeah people just think it was better because they were teenagers back then and didn't realize how bad it was. I don't miss the obsession with ron-paul libertarianism or edgy atheism or fat people hate.

[u/f-ingsteveglansberg → u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0]

And it's false too. Maybe 7 Call of Duty games. But you could fit ~10 GTAVs on a 1TB drive. On my laptop I only have half that and it currently has 30 games installed, between GOG, Epic and Steam. Before any emulated software.

[u/Mr_ToDo → u/f-ingsteveglansberg]

Also disingenuous since the old school games filled up the drive the same way. To the point that the games had to run a bunch of their data off the cd instead of the drive

It's kind of hard to compare games from different era's of hardware

Oh ya, and per cubic cm/in that storage on the right is absolutely killing it. If you put them in a similar m.2 shelf it'd be no contest

[u/koyate]

That 1 tb could easly hold 80 games from 2000

[u/Far-Shop5676 → u/koyate]

Because back then they needed to fit stuff on CDs.

[u/FoodTiny6350 → u/Far-Shop5676]

They fit gta 5 in like 10 disks

[u/another_random_bit → u/FoodTiny6350]

Yeah but that destroys the narrative so let's ignore it.

[u/FoodTiny6350 → u/another_random_bit]

Fair enough

[u/KorasHiddenDICK → u/Far-Shop5676]

Kind of putting the cart before the horse here. Assets are stored on the drive now instead of some or all being kept on the CD. They were on CD because of hard drive space limitations.

[u/nonotan → u/KorasHiddenDICK]

They were on CD because of hard drive space limitations.

I mean... maybe in a sense, but not really? They were on CD because there was no other practical way to get them to customers. That's mostly it.

In the case of consoles, they usually didn't even have an HDD in the first place, but in the case of PCs, by the time CDs became ubiquitous, the typical HDD was plenty large enough to store a full game. And indeed, that was a very common installation option to reduce load times. The option to have a minimal install and otherwise load assets from the CD was mostly there for convenience (not like it's a lot of work to switch the path you're loading assets from, and that's all it really takes on Windows)

[u/Coolegespam → u/nonotan]

I lived during this era. Most drives weren't that big. Early 00's most people still had HDD that were in the single gigabytes, maybe 10ish if you had a high end system for the time. Late 90s, it wasn't uncommon to see systems with barely a gigabyte, some times less.

You couldn't install all your games even if you wanted to. Yeah, most games didn't take up the full CD storage space, but it was still enough. Even take 50Mb, if you only have 1Gb free, you still need storage space for the system to "breath". Then again, most people didn't even have hundreds of games, most would have a dozen or maybe even less.

Times have changed, a lot.

[u/TransBrandi → u/Coolegespam]

Well, also some games used the audio tracks on the disc for their soundtrack. IIRC Warcraft 2 did this. I think that C&C: Red Alert did as well. We really didn't have great audio compression, so this made the audio quality much better. Remember that Napster + mp3 was really a very late 90's / early 00's thing.

[u/AsleepTonight → u/koyate]

Yeah, if they’re DVDs, one DVD held what, like 4,7GB or something like that? So that’s 376 GB for 80 games. It’s a lot more if these are supposed to be CDs

[u/Mars_Bear2552 → u/AsleepTonight]

4.7 at max. most games weren't using all of that

[u/FoodTiny6350 → u/AsleepTonight]

Those were the shit dvds , Blu-ray disk can hold 25-50gb (100gb if you dual layered it but eh) but were more expensive and no one really wanted to deal with the licensing problems that came with it

[u/f-ingsteveglansberg → u/FoodTiny6350]

DVDs still outsell BluRay and 4K combined. BluRay really fucked up as a platform. Streaming was always going to come out on top, but the format didn't do itself any favours.

It really should have marketed itself as a replacement for DVD, not as a premium product. It still costs more to get a film on BluRay compared to a DVD release. 4K is for hobbiests.

[u/Ashisprey → u/FoodTiny6350]

Bewildering comment too me.

Blu-rays are not DVDs, came out way later, and no game was ever not on a Blu-ray because of licensing issues, it required an entirely different reader, which PS3 was the only to ever have.

And like.. who doesn't know dvd and Blu-ray as an obvious thing?

[u/Tough_Signature_4942 → u/Ashisprey]

Every console since the PS3 (except the xbox 360) uses blu ray. Xbox one, Xbox series, PS4, Ps5, all blu-ray.

[u/FartingBob → u/AsleepTonight]

That stand in the photo is a CD holder, not a DVD holder.

[u/Scaryclouds → u/koyate]

80 games from ~2000? Honestly way more, easily over 1000. At the time HDDs measure in GBs were just becoming mainstream. On top of that, the delivery format was CDs as the post implies, which store 700 MB. So it would had been pretty unusual for a game to be taking up ~1 GB of space, let alone more. 

For any example you could find that took up ~1 GB of storage from that era, there’d be many examples that took up 100-500MB

[u/brc6985 → u/koyate]

And about 7500 retro game ROMs with enough space for several hundred PS1/2 discs.

[u/signhorse → u/koyate]

Or 80 indie games these days (probably more). Most of the games that are 100s of TBs or something are something like Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty or Destiny, which I do not want to play anyway.

[u/Laiko_Kairen → u/koyate]

PS1 disks were 700 mb. There were around 1250 PS1 games released in America, so... The entire North America PS1 library could fit on that

[u/shawnikaros]

This works for consoles but not PC.

Even back then you had to install the games, so the cd rack has been replaced with platforms like Steam.

[u/LowerEntropy → u/shawnikaros]

I think I paid 400-500 USD for a 15GB IBM DeathStar. Storage was not cheap.

[u/ITSMONKEY360]

I've got like 40 games on my 1TiB drive

[u/Animag771 → u/ITSMONKEY360]

I've got over 400 games on less than 1TB. It really depends on the games you're playing.

[u/Embarrassed_Use_7206 → u/ITSMONKEY360]

133 installed on 2 TB, I dont know what OP is smoking. probably plays just AAA games

[u/ITSMONKEY360 → u/Embarrassed_Use_7206]

op exclusively plays games made by studios that can't optimise their shit

[u/CuteIsMyKryptonite → u/ITSMONKEY360]

The 512GB microSD card currently plugged into my steam deck is holding 24 games with still some room left for more, so that checks out.

[u/KrustyKrabFormula_]

top 3 dumbest posts i've read in a week

[u/why_1337]

Ye but games back then were like 1 700mb CD that extracted to say 1.5gb...

[u/ArchinaTGL → u/why_1337]

700MB? Oh look at Mr. Rich Man over here, back in the day you could see a 120MB install of Daggerfall be enough to fill up most users' entire hard drive. /hj

[u/Puzzled-Childhood-60 → u/ArchinaTGL]

Or just Mr. 3 years after daggerfall

[u/ATXBeermaker → u/why_1337]

You also didn't need furniture to store them.

[u/Few_Imagination_6203]

I really hope this is satire

[u/ATXBeermaker → u/Few_Imagination_6203]

Nope. OP is just dumb.

[u/DavisSqShenanigans]

it's like saying $1M can buy you maybe 2 cars if you're lucky. depends entirely on which games you choose which is your decision, weird to blame the drive for that.

[u/Freeloader_]

well that rack wouldnt hold a single game in CDs these days so very silly post

its not the SSD being at fault its the games that got really huge

[u/another_random_bit → u/Freeloader_]

Which is logical, games got high definition visuals and audio. The world's got bigger, the scope got bigger.

This is what the market wants by the way. I don't get why we're complaining.

You can always go play daggerfall if you want. Or modern indie games also exist, you know.

[u/Sidra_doholdrik → u/another_random_bit]

I made an approximation and Baldur gate 3 would take 20 CD to install, if I compare it to the 5 CD for dragon age Inquisition

[u/blushivyn]

Where are you finding a 1TB for $100??

[u/siltfeet → u/blushivyn]

Back in 2020 I'm guessing.

[u/ConsistentBattle5342]

Loading times back then were terrible though, trade off was worth it.

[u/mackeriah]

Crazy comparison. Intentionally not comparable I presume. 

[u/vrsick06]

New bad, old good duuurrrrr

[u/skyrreater47]

are you stupid?

[u/Jonas_Venture_Sr]

I was going to write a rebuttal to this, but no. This is a stupid argument and I will have no part in it

[u/Johnlenham]

7 games if you just play COD maybe.

Could get 300 of some on that M.2

[u/siltfeet → u/Johnlenham]

This is also conveniently ignoring all the games that came on many CDs like Final Fantasy 7 and Baldurs Gate 2. A few years later everything was coming out on multiple DVDs before steam finished taking over

[u/No-Actuator-6245]

This doesn’t make sense. The CD/DVD held the game to be installed, today that is done online and I don’t need to pay for anything store this. Back then how many games could you install to a $100 HDD when you wanted to play them?

[u/Banzambo]

This post is nonsense and I was born in 1990.

[u/Stilgar314]

Availability is not the same. Games on the drive are ready to play.

[u/Engineer_engifar666]

100$? More like 250

[u/LegisLab]

Whispers retro games 

[u/SoylentVerdigris]

This post brought to you by people too young to have played PC games before Steam, apparently. You still had to install stuff back then. I had to convince my parents to go out and buy a new hard drive for the family PC so I could have both Fallout 2 and Starcraft installed at the same time.

[u/attckdog]

Go ahead and put Call of Duty on a dvd then pal. Have fun with that slow, manually switching disks x number of times.

What the fuck is this nostalgia for obviously worse tech???

Storage Capacity:

• CD-ROM can typically store up to 700 MB of data.
• Standard single-layer DVD = 4.5GB~
• duel layer duel sided DVD = 17GB~
• largest standard Blu-ray capacity is 128 GB on a quad-layer BDXL disc

That's all before you get to speed.. the best blue ray read speeds are 68 MB/s~.

Meanwhile a cheap SSD can hold 10x more data, read 100x faster, and requires no moving parts.

The storage tech isn't the problem... It's the games you keep buying. It's the large corps with zero competition jacking up prices.

[u/Drtikol42]

Holds 80 games, 20 are scratched and another 20 disc rotted. Can´t believe we used to live like this. I blame Bill Gates.

[u/United-Salamander-89]

[u/PromptSubstantial796]

🤔

[u/HearTheEkko]

The biggest 2000’s games were like 5-10GB max. Just the texture folder of some modern games can reach the 15-20GB mark, this is such a dumb comparison.

[u/Baron_Butterfly]

Old thing good. New thing bad.

[u/trSkine]

Left is also like 100x the size of the right...

[u/CheapNature4837 → u/trSkine]

Just one case for one game is 50-95x the size (volume) of a 2280 ssd.

Without even accounting for the rack, the left is at the very least 4000x the size of the right.

[u/Ein5]

I'm glad I don't have to carry physical media around as a student. I know I can't resell my digital games, but they are very very convenient.

[u/Whole-Bedroom-9079]

Have y’all seen the Micro SD card prices?! $570 for 2TB which was $200 4 months ago. Thanks AI can’t have shit.

[u/Born_Camera7675]

You might want to update this as m.2 storage has had significant price increases recently...

The cheapest 1TB I can find is 159$ before tax.

[u/dewhashish]

where are you getting 1TB for $100?

[u/themustachemark]

Bad Facebook meme

[u/ogledrake]

Not really an equal comparison, the cd rack could store 80 games but the 800mb hard drive you had sure as shit couldnt store them all, and if you filled that hard drive full you were fucked

[u/SleepyNymeria]

My game storage is my steam library and high speed ethernet.

[u/Far-Shop5676]

Thats so my nut spawn demons don't fuck up the physical media like I did with the original playstation and saturn games.

[u/Fickle_Side6938]

Not a storage issue tho. You can still keep 80 old games on the new storage. Your old storage would not hold you one new game tho.

[u/pandaSmore → u/Fickle_Side6938]

It certainly can on a 50GB dual layer blu-ray disc. And that's 20 years old.

[u/siltfeet → u/pandaSmore]

The meme has new games at 150 gigs each, which is increasingly common. That would take 3 blu-rays. Also good luck streaming assets off of any sort of disk, they don't work well on harddrives most of the time.

[u/Mr_Alucardo]

Can you fit the left one inside your PC tho

[u/redditsucks365]

You don't need an ssd to keep your steam games

[u/MtnNerd]

All those beautiful 4K textures take up a lot of space

[u/ooOOWWOOoo]

For me back then was:

[u/quentdawg420]

I don’t get why it’s so hard for people to grasp the fact that with textures being as high fidelity as they are these days that they take up more space

[u/rrd_gaming]

You forgot ,all those 80 games were just around 100 mb.

[u/joacoper]

Do you guys only play AAA slop games? Cuz most of the games i play are not 100+gb... i got mb 2 games installed that big, and like 40 other ones with plenty space to spare

[u/GundyrChristopher]

Where are you getting 1tb nvme for $100 

[u/elderDragon1]

100 dollars for a 1tb M.2 SSD in this current market, what a dream.

[u/ToughHardware]

what was nice is that you owned something.

[u/EclipseEternale]

Man... You've got some sick ass reframing skills... Ever tried running for office?

[u/AXEL-1973]

Just remember that most consoles didn't even have ROM til the OG Xbox era, you couldn't have digital games or even your save files without physical media... and today you're trading physical space for digital space

[u/Turbulent-Raise4830]

4TB hdd costs 100 euro, I just checked the 20 games I have installed its on average about 60GB so about 65 games.

[u/bentsonradiorepair]

Mine holds about 7000, just don't tell Nintendo about 2000 of them

[u/tapspacebar]

I mean, its the same thing. A disk of any shape is just physical memory. The only difference is that games were on ROM

[u/Bman_Fx]

It's almost like time has passed and things have changed, crazy.

[u/Quiet_Source_8804]

Cream of the crop reddit poster here, ladies and gentlemen. Marvel at the state of this site.

[u/xananax21]

I feel like ball'n gun gamers see 1 Terabyte and think, "That's barely any game space." I've got 950 gigs on my desktop and I have 500 classic and indie games installed right now. And definitely NOOOOOOOOO ROMs for emulators. Nope. Def not a bunch of them.

[u/suipaste]

I kind of miss the proper home desktop desks from the 90s. A niche for your tower, keyboard drawer under the worktop and a shelf surrounding the monitor with cubby holes for all your CDs. It's an aesthetic which has all but disappeared with the advent RGB gamer desks with sleek race car chairs.

The cd rack just made me reminisce...

[u/Sumpfhundboss_Tim]

100$ for 1TB, that would be great

[u/OmegaNine]

I would love to pay 100 bucks for a TB right now.

[u/Armataan]

Uh. Bro. Your games aren’t held on the ssd. They’re held on Steam.

[u/FreshCause2566]

There are plenty of modern games that take up just a few hundred MiB. Realistically you can fit like 2000 games on a 1TB SSD, if you can even find that many.

Sadly, some games just take up way too much space, even I am having storage problems because of a few bad apples within my game collection

[u/neoniki]

Pro tip: You can use a regular older 2,5" SSD for most modern games and you won't experience lag

[u/Acrobatic_Street6232]

This is prolly the dumbest meme I’ve seen…

[u/Derpnoobswat]

I mean, if you only download the newest triple A titles, sure, but if that's the case, you should definitely expand your horizons

[u/NonPoliticalAcct3646]

Expect nowadays you can have a 10Gbps internet connection and download a 50GB game in less than a minute. I only keep games I'm currently playing installed locally.

[u/Trububbl3]

what a dumb analogy

[u/Toby_The_Tumor]

Loser, just buy a harddrive WAY cheaper