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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22872422

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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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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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