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61. I remember paying $400 for 40GB hard drives in the early 90's.

You can still get 1TB hard drives for little less than $100 at Microcenter. It looks like the prices went up about 10-20% after the tsunami, still not that bad, but there is definitely less choice now. I think they're trying to sell us SSD's which IMO are overpriced and not large enough yet. I can live with my PC not booting in 2 seconds.

On the other hand, DDR3 memory is so cheap now that I actually LOL'ed at the price.

I'm building a machine mostly for music production, I didn't go bleeding edge, I always go for best bang/buck which is currently the i5 2500k quad-core and Asus P8Z68, just using onboard (actually on-CPU now) GPU. I'm not a gamer at all. Thankfully my relatively old pro soundcard still works beautifully with the new architecture.

Final result, 9x increase in speed for $260.