I still remember walking into Best Buy, seeing 120GB HDDs for $120 and losing my shit over how cheap harddrives were getting.
Now go back to the 80s, at least it’s already a log scale.
That is one ugly graph, why would you post it here?
I remember buying my first computer with a tiny hard drive that cost a fortune. Seeing how much storage you can get now for way less money is wild. It’s crazy to think about how far tech has come in just a couple of decades. The chart really shows how quickly prices have dropped and storage has increased. It makes you wonder where we’ll be in another 20 years.
![[OC] Drives Price/GB over the last 24 years](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/wkqwnacxqsfd1-1920x1024.png)
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This is for HDD, looking to make one for SSD one, or should I overlap both?
Data has been researched, tried many tools, but GPT helped me make a nice Log scale Y-axis, and linked as well in my blog: https://www.thecpuguide.com/pc/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/.
This truely is beautiful data.
I still remember walking into Best Buy, seeing 120GB HDDs for $120 and losing my shit over how cheap harddrives were getting.
Now go back to the 80s, at least it’s already a log scale.
That is one ugly graph, why would you post it here?
I remember buying my first computer with a tiny hard drive that cost a fortune. Seeing how much storage you can get now for way less money is wild. It’s crazy to think about how far tech has come in just a couple of decades. The chart really shows how quickly prices have dropped and storage has increased. It makes you wonder where we’ll be in another 20 years.