Remember in 2004 when you got your 160GB HD for $100?

[Calavera]

You thought "Wow 160GB of storage for only $100! Who would have ever thought hard drives would cost less than $1 per gigabyte! 160GB for $100 is only like 60 cents per gigabyte!" Only 10 years before that a 2GB drive was around $1,100 or $550 per gigabyte! In just 10 years the price dropped from $550 to 60 cents.

Now here we are 16 years later in the future of 2020 where an 8TB hard drive can be had for $155. That is about 2 cents per gigabyte! It really is crazy that you can get a brand new 8TB drive for only $150. If you don't mind going refurbished you can go even cheaper! A 4TB drive for only $63! We're talking 1.5 cents per gigabyte! Shenmue II spanning 4 mighty GD-ROMs now only takes up 1/10 of a percent of a $63 hard drive.

So what kind of drives will we have 10 years from now? Right now an 8TB SSD is $1,500. How long until the price drops 90 percent to $150? At a certain point will mechanical HDDs be nonexistent once SSD prices come down to that of a mechanical drive now? Or once we have 8TB SSDs for $150 will we have 100TB HDDs for $100?

I hope you have enjoyed this random rambling about hard drives by The Calacera.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Calavera]

Only 340 million dollars for a terabyte!

[Calavera]

I'd be interested in knowing what those drives were primarily used for back then. I realize the main customer were businesses but what were they using it for in 1980 that was worth spending over $13,000 (with inflation) on a 10mb hard drive? I'm legitimately curious. What were their main use and how many were sold? How reliable were they? How long were they in use? In what year did the final company final retire their 10mb hard drive?

[Dr. Zoidberg]

10mb of ASCII porn.