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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by kchr@lemmy.sdf.org to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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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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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Eh? When was the last time you saw a 1Tb drive for $10?

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 23 points 5 days ago

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/

[–] Halo@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I’m not going to math it out but maybe the 20tb+ drives are lower. I don’t think .01 but closer maybe.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

PC part picker starts at $0.013/GB which isn't too far off.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And you can grab a rando bottom-of-the-barrel 12TB from Amazon for about $0.0095825/GB (not GiB).

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Yea I think the 1c/GB is a close enough approximation.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Maybe. A 20Tb drive for $350 is $0.017 so truncation maybe.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 5 days ago

OP includes remote storage? I guess if you're an enterprise client you can get those prices.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well used, I got 4 of em for $5

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Comparing new and used prices is just misleading.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

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

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 26 points 5 days ago

Inaccurate

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Size of 1gb of storage over time would be neat too.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago

45 years ago: 1gb

40 years ago: 1gb

35 years ago: 1gb

Etc.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't post screenshots of text

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

...or at least add alternative text.

[–] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 days ago

You are absolutely right, I'll fix it asap!