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A 5MB Hard Drive, 1956
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The hard drive IBM shipped in 1956:
* about $121,819.66 per mb in today's money.
And nowadays you can get a 2TB SSD that fits in your pocket and costs like $150.
Can someone do the math on how much cheaper and smaller memory is now?
It's a veritable fuckton cheaper. In scientific terms at least.
Nailed it.
I'd wager to say it might even be 2 or even 3 fuck tons cheaper!
Hell, you can get a 1tb microSD card for around that same price. Crazy. Be careful not to accidentally inhale it, lol
It's 0,000075 USD per mb now with your example, which is about 146 666 666 times cheaper.
To add a bit of perspective, the 4tb m.2 ssd that I just bought for around $300USD would fill a cube that is a bit over a football field in length, width, and height.
It would cost about $44 billion before inflation is factored in, or $487 billion with inflation included.
It would also use an insane amount of electricity, be a ton slower, and likely generate an enormous amount of heat.
Hoping I did the math correctly. Haven’t had coffee.
Might be faster if all drives are connected in parallel