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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Someone do one for the average physical size taken up by 1 GB.

When I was a kid we had a 500 MB drive that was the size of a brick and now we have microsd cards that are 1TB. Pretty wild.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The spec exists for a 128TB SDUC card.
    There probably doesn't exists one yet, or maybe only in a lab somewhere and probably costs more than my car.
    Still, today's storage density is kinda nuts.
    Within my lifetime, we've went from 1.5MB being high-density portable storage, now you can have a 2TB thumb drive in your pocket.

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