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- cross-posted to:
- whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22872422
Screenshot of a Twitter post by user JonErlichman
Average cost for 1 gigabyte of storage:
45 years ago: $438,000 40 years ago: $238,000 35 years ago: $48,720 30 years ago: $5,152 25 years ago: $455 20 years ago: $5 15 years ago: $0.55 10 years ago: $0.05 5 years ago: $0.03 Today: $0.01
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Inaccurate
Eh? When was the last time you saw a 1Tb drive for $10?
Used hard drives are 10tb for $80, aka $0.008/GB.
Hetzner Storage boxes are 10TB for $20/month
I’m not going to math it out but maybe the 20tb+ drives are lower. I don’t think .01 but closer maybe.
PC part picker starts at $0.013/GB which isn’t too far off.
And you can grab a rando bottom-of-the-barrel 12TB from Amazon for about $0.0095825/GB (not GiB).
Yea I think the 1c/GB is a close enough approximation.
Maybe. A 20Tb drive for $350 is $0.017 so truncation maybe.
Well used, I got 4 of em for $5
Comparing new and used prices is just misleading.
Sometimes I guess…? Like yeah sometimes you find great steals like I did with that but usually the used market has similar prices for similar products. Check it out and save some money
Size of 1gb of storage over time would be neat too.
45 years ago: 1gb
40 years ago: 1gb
35 years ago: 1gb
Etc.
