Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time
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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Eh? When was the last time you saw a 1Tb drive for $10?
Used hard drives are 10tb for $80, aka $0.008/GB.
diskprices.com
Hetzner Storage boxes are 10TB for $20/month
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/
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.
OP includes remote storage? I guess if you're an enterprise client you can get those prices.
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
Inaccurate
Take numbers with a grain of salt, e.g., this link says a 7200RPM 160GB SATA drive from 2004 is $107, or about $0.67/GB, instead of the $5 claimed in post.
100% this.
I know for a fact that in 1999 (25 years ago) when I was running an ISP that Seagate Barracuda 4GB SCSI-2 Ultra Wide drives for example were costing $300/drive rounded; I used to buy hundreds of them. I have an old purchase order framed showing such and those were very much a premium drive back then.
Size of 1gb of storage over time would be neat too.
45 years ago: 1gb
40 years ago: 1gb
35 years ago: 1gb
Etc.
Don't post screenshots of text
...or at least add alternative text.
You are absolutely right, I'll fix it asap!