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March 8, 2011 08:26 am PST
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Tracking the astounding pace of digital storage
Ivan Smith maintains a page tracking the price of digital storage over the years. This is one of technology's least appreciated growth stories -- we hear a lot about Moore's Law and the doubling of processing capacity, but storage-density's growth makes the pace of processor improvements look glacial. Every now and then I realize that the 32GB SD card in my camera costs less than the 16k memory upgrade I put in my Apple ][+ in 1980, even without accounting for inflation, and I am croggled. Here are David Isenberg's benchmarks, calculated from Smith's records: YEAR -- Price of a Gigabyte 1981 -- $300,000 1987 -- $50,000 1990 -- $10,000 1994 -- $1000 1997 -- $100 2000 -- $10 2004 -- $1 2010 -- $0.10 It would be interesting to do the same chart for a megabyte -- you'd go from six figures to fractional pennies in a damned short period. Cost of Hard Drive Storage Space (via Isen.blog) Netgear's tiny Network Attached Storage RAID -- just right for a ... Microsoft bilking customers on hard drives - Boing Boing Cloud computing skepticism - Boing Boing Hard drive crushers... er.... crush drives hard - Boing Boing Standalone hard-disk eraser: Wiebetech eRazer - Boing Boing Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives ......
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