| ▲ | robotresearcher 6 hours ago | |
> when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been. Most expensive it's been for a handful of years. 1TB of spinny disk cost a million dollars as recently as 1994, and half a billion dollars in 1980. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput... | ||
| ▲ | nvme0n1p1 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Yeah, and a pound of sugar cost 8oz of gold a few thousand years ago, so inflation isn't real and food insecurity is a myth. If you want a fair comparison you should look at the price of storage at the capacity required for typical contemporaneous workloads. Don't quote numbers in the billions when that amount of storage didn't exist on the entire planet at the time. | ||