Tracking the astounding pace of digital storage

Tracking the astounding pace of digital storage: "Ivan Smith maintains a page tracking the price of digital storage over the years. This is one of technology's least appreciated growth stories -- we hear a lot about Moore's Law and the doubling of processing capacity, but storage-density's growth makes the pace of processor improvements look glacial. Every now and then I realize that the 32GB SD card in my camera costs less than the 16k memory upgrade I put in my Apple ][+ in 1980, even without accounting for inflation, and I am croggled. Here are David Isenberg's benchmarks, calculated from Smith's records:

YEAR -- Price of a Gigabyte

1981 -- $300,000

1987 -- $50,000

1990 -- $10,000

1994 -- $1000

1997 -- $100

2000 -- $10

2004 -- $1

2010 -- $0.10

It would be interesting to do the same chart for a megabyte -- you'd go from six figures to fractional pennies in a damned short period.

Cost of
Hard Drive Storage Space

(via Isen.blog)

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