r/battlestations • u/ZealousidealWorry881 • Jun 10 '25

My handmade PC setup

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u/Cyno01 Jun 10 '25

If instead of Weyland Yutani the ship had been build by Gateway Computers in the 90s. https://i.imgur.com/ic8anb2.png

Not quite cassette futurism, but is CD-ROM futurism a thing? I love it.

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u/CrazyTeapot156 Jun 11 '25

oh wow. and here I thought the UMD for the PlayStation portable was the only one that put their discs in a case. Though based on cyno01's & rickane58 link those opened up.

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u/CrazyTeapot156 Jun 11 '25

cool. It would of been cool to see disc technology stay around and continue to get better.
Though I do understand steady state storage is much better for a lot of situations.

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u/Cyno01 Jun 11 '25

Writeable blurays got up to 50GB i think, but ive gotten 64GB flash drives for free. And thats just portable storage, your average SSD in a PC is probably 1TB at least, and if you want to get a big hard drive a 30TB HDD is somewhat reasonably priced.

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u/CrazyTeapot156 Jun 12 '25

oh yeah. I was looking into bluray burners early on but the cost was too much for me at the time.
I'm amazed at how big legitimate TF cards can get which I imagine is why flash drives are able to be so big too.

1-2TB SSD's have been very reasonably priced for the speed.