Re: [MLUG]

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Ryan Thornton wrote:
>
> > Yep, I'm amazed at the HD prices...  80gig WD drive for $100 at >
> Compusa this week.
>
> Fifteen years ago I bought my first HD.  It was about $15 per MB for
> that drive.  80 GB for $100 is $0.00125 per MB.  That means HD space
> cost 12,000 times as much 15 years ago as it costs now (not accounting
> for inflation which would make the effect even stronger).

Maybe even more importantly than just the price decline is the nominal
and relative shrinkage in size.  15 years ago, that might have been
a full-height 5.25" form factor.  I think next month you'll be able to
get a 12mm height 2" drive holding 40 gigs (those topped out at 20 last
I checked).  Lots of storage is nice enough, but these things are small
enough to have a huge effect on everything else you can think of.

jking

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