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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time
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this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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This chart is total bullshit on past pricing. Lots of it is wrong. It's especially laughable to think that normal pc owners in 1999 were paying nearly $10,000 for a 20 GB hard drive. Let alone the cost 5 years before that. Lol
I would have killed for 20Gb of space in 1999 on my personal PC. People ran with nowhere near that much space back then.
I was also the administrator of an HP mainframe at that time, and we ran the whole business on about 5Gb, and paid big $$$ for it.
Did you mean 20GB? Cause 20Gb = 2.5Gb
There is a difference between gigabytes and gigabits. 1 gigabyte (GB) = 8 gigabits (Gb)
The irony... Nobody talks about bits when it comes to storage, it's basically only used for transfer speeds. So it should be pretty easy to infer by the context.