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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I love just straight up lying. I wish it was 1¢ per GB. Maybe the most dirt cheap Chinese off-brand that only has 1/2 of its listed capacity usable because it is a refurb labelled as new. 100€ for a 10TB is insane.

Even going higher capacity to get a lower price per GB, 10TB drives are around 300€. That is 0.03€ per GB. 20TB drives are around 525€. (These are just consumer drives too, enterprise is significantly more expensive for the MTBF ratings) Still 0.026€ per GB. Once you get into ultra high capacity, it starts going up again because of tech limitations.

[–] shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 weeks ago

Here you can get 12TB, new, from a trusted German seller, for 129€, which is 1.075 cents per GB.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's lying in the other direction as well. We had a 2GB HDD on our computer in the late 90s that I am very sure did not cost thousands of dollars.

[–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

I bought a 20TB external hard drive a year ago for 0.015 cents per GB. This was after taxes, so it was technically cheaper.

$301.69/20,000 = 0.0150