Both of those examples come mostly from innovative technology, not economics of sscale. 10TB drives today are literally completely different things than 10TB drives from 20 years ago.

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SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Well 10TB drives didn't exist 20 years ago. Even 10TB total on a server was an almost unthinkable amount of storage.

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phoghed 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The drives were like 10 years ago but you’re certainly wrong on the server part of your comment

	▲	SoftTalker 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I suppose... most of the servers I managed in those days didn't come close to that. These were pretty average 2U servers, maybe 6 or 8 drive bays with a 500G or so drive in each, RAID 5 config, so maybe 3.5TB total if loaded up. 10TB would have been considered a huge amount of space. I'm sure some storage servers or storage appliances were built with many TB even then but it wasn't really something I saw a lot.