cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22872422
Screenshot of a Twitter post by user JonErlichman
Average cost for 1 gigabyte of storage:
45 years ago: $438,000 40 years ago: $238,000 35 years ago: $48,720 30 years ago: $5,152 25 years ago: $455 20 years ago: $5 15 years ago: $0.55 10 years ago: $0.05 5 years ago: $0.03 Today: $0.01
PC part picker starts at $0.013/GB which isn’t too far off.
And you can grab a rando bottom-of-the-barrel 12TB from Amazon for about $0.0095825/GB (not GiB).
Yea I think the 1c/GB is a close enough approximation.