| ▲ | superkuh 3 hours ago |
| 4GB should be nothing. It's crazy to me how consumer computer storage has stalled out at the 2010 level for so long. And if anything we're going backwards now in 2026. We should be having many TBs in our home computers and laptops. Instead most users are still stuck with 256GB and trying to tetris around to fit even their average amount of small data. |
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| ▲ | chatmasta an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| It is nothing. This whole fiasco is being blown way out of proportion when there are a hundred other issues with Chrome that we could be complaining about. |
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| ▲ | hnlmorg 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This was mostly an Apple problem. 1TB SSDs were dirt cheap until the last 6 months when AI bought them all up. |
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| ▲ | kn100 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I reckon until the recent ai-gobbles-everything-up phenomena, this was mainly an Apple problem. Even fairly budget PCs come with at least 1tb of storage. Considering much beyond 2tb NAND gets scary pricing wise, I'm not that surprised we don't see much beyond that. |
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| ▲ | superkuh 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, but I don't think it was just Apple. The switch to charge trap based SSD storage set all pre-built consumer computers back a full decade in terms of storage size. We were only just getting back beyond 2010 levels when the megacorps started buying up all the flash fab capacity and now even most of the HDD plates are going to enterprise. | | |
| ▲ | hnlmorg an hour ago | parent [-] | | A full decade is a bit of an exaggeration. Not just in terms of storage capacity but especially when you consider than switching from HDDs to SSDs was a massive leap in performance for PCs and laptops. | | |
| ▲ | superkuh an hour ago | parent [-] | | There's no debating the performance. Charge trap flash makes computing so much better. It's just a shame things went SSD only. It really isn't an exaggeration when it comes to actual storage space available per prebuilt. | | |
| ▲ | hnlmorg an hour ago | parent [-] | | I don’t know what pre-builts you’ve seen, but when I bought 2 middle-range laptops 5 years ago, all the models were between 500GB to 1TB of storage. And it’s not a trap when most people aren’t going to fill 5TB of storage with their accounts spreadsheets but they are going to notice the performance difference between an SSD and a HDD. |
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| ▲ | goalieca 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Ironically, the AI datacenter boom is also buying up all the storage. |
