Take numbers with a grain of salt, e.g., this link says a 7200RPM 160GB SATA drive from 2004 is $107, or about $0.67/GB, instead of the $5 claimed in post.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

100% this.

I know for a fact that in 1999 (25 years ago) when I was running an ISP that Seagate Barracuda 4GB SCSI-2 Ultra Wide drives for example were costing $300/drive rounded; I used to buy hundreds of them. I have an old purchase order framed showing such and those were very much a premium drive back then.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 49 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 20 points 19 hours 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/

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well used, I got 4 of em for $5

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Comparing new and used prices is just misleading.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 19 hours 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

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Size of 1gb of storage over time would be neat too.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 42 points 17 hours ago

45 years ago: 1gb

40 years ago: 1gb

35 years ago: 1gb

Etc.