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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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[–] 23 points 2 years 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/

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