Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/235024900/Unit-6-Analysis-1-Memory-Cost
Now think about the amount of storage we will have 45 years from now.
Nah, transistors can’t get much smaller than they already are. Only new fabs and increasing production capacity can really lower prices at this point (and the AI bubble bursting), it’s not going to be so much about technology getting exponentially better like it was in previous decades
And every step of the way, some assholes idiots inspired society to think “we will never need more than this”
Probably going to cost that again soon if AI keeps eating the world.
26 megabytes…who will ever need that much.
I know, right? I had a 20 MB drive on my Amiga. Plenty.
With “waiting for” they mean probably the slow read/write speed.
Hard disks were blazing fast compared to floppies.
They still are.
Agree, and it was noisy as fuck.
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don’t worry, at this rate we’ll be back to that pricing in no time…
Only for SSDs. HDDs are under $100 for 2TB drives. Economy of scale plus lower demand makes those physical drives super cheap.
i believe datacenter demand is driving up HDD prices too though to a lesser extent
Datacenter demand is just the excuse to jack and fix prices.
unfortunately true
Yep! Also, some people don’t care about the speed of an HDD, as long as it has a ton of storage.
$100 for 2TB is terrible though, ideally we get 1TB or more per $5
I bought 4 4tb HDDs for $500 total last year, went to buy a spare last month and they’re $250 each now. So no. Not even a little bit true.
You better look again, all my shit has went up.
Uh wrong. The drive’s I Bought last year have more than doubled. In price. Hdds not ssd. Insanity.
super cheap
That’s what a slim 2.5" (so, fairly cutting-edge tech) 2TB cost almost 10 years ago, and a couple of years later the same drive was around $70. This isn’t some kind of amazing deal in 2026.
All hard drives, including HDD’s have at least gone up a bit. But, everybody prefers SSD’s, so obviously those will be higher. People install the OS on the SSD then use a huge HDD to install the games on.
Yeah about that…
Now look at 10TB drives.
You checked Walmart for those? Might be a decent price if they actually have them in stock.
That ain’t nowhere near enough to store the nudes your mom sent me.
It’s funny to see cost per GB on the right. Back in 1980, most people didn’t even know what a Gigabyte might be.
Around 2000 I remember a guy at the computer store telling me that 20 gigs was a ton and how would I even use it? Well, one pirated 700 Meg movie at a time is how (most pirate copies tried to keep movies to 700 mb so they’d fit on a burned cd)
I always chuckle thinking about taking a 1TB Micro SD back in time and watching people’s heads explode.
I remember being in college in the very early 90s and a friend got a machine with 2 2gb hard drives and wondering what he was going to do with all that space. Now I have a NAS at home with something like 100TB and it’s almost 75% full.
Ahoy, matey! 🤣
It really is insane that 1TB micro SD cards exist now
Yes, it is:
Yeah but your crypto was safe, brah.
Local storage will be illegal in 45 years.
I didn’t think about that, “you’ll own nothing and be happy” plan…
And we’ll probably have less cloud storage than we do now
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My second computer had a 20 MB HDD and it was wonderful to have soooo much space compared to the previous computer which had no HDD and 3 floppy drives.
Then a year later I added a second 20 MB HDD and was absolutely swimming in space.
Back then a ‘large’ app was 100 KB. You’d spend all day writing code and produce a 13 KB file.
I can spend all day writing code and end up a couple kB lighter.
I remember my parents taking us to the Gateway store, and the guy who helped us said something along the lines of “This PC has 12 gigs; you’ll never run out of space!”
Napster hit the scene within a few months. Started getting “low disk space!” warnings real quick.
All the oldies flocking here to tell everyone about how cool their tiny hard drives were.
Hi, I had a 25mb hard drive and it was awesome. Technology!
I had a 186 (or possibly an 8088?) in the mid 80s as my first PC. It ran on two low density 5.25" floppy drives, with no internal HD. My uncle bought himself a new HDD and gave me his old 20MB drive. When I was next at the local computer store, I asked how much a 20MB drive costs, and my jaw hit the floor!
I didn’t think 186 was a thing.
Seemed to go straight from 8086/8088 to 80286.
It was a thing
My 1st was an apple ][ plus clone with a controller for 2 8” floppy drives. I ran a BBS off of it.
I remember getting my first 10MB hard drive, c. the 80s. I remember holding it in my hands and marveling at how I could put ten million bytes in this little enclosure and just… carry it around, if I so chose. Not that I was inclined to; that thing was heavy.
Eventually, after the drive failed, I took it apart and pinched the absolute fuck out of my finger between the two neodymium magnets. Blood was spilled.
Computers used to be fun. They still are, but they used to be too.
