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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 months 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/

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Well used, I got 4 of em for $5

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Comparing new and used prices is just misleading.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months 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

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