"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte"

"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...-per-gigabyte/

"For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. For the
past 35+ years or so, hard drives prices have dropped, from around
$500,000 per gigabyte in 1981 to less than $0.03 per gigabyte today.
This includes the period of the Thailand drive crisis in 2012 that
spiked hard drive prices. Matthew Komorowski has done an admirable job
of documenting the hard drive price curve through March 2014 and we’d
like to fill in the blanks with our own drive purchase data to complete
the picture. As you’ll see, the hard drive pricing curve has flattened out."
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update

Lynn

Lynn McGuire writes:

"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...-per-gigabyte/

"For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. For the
past 35+ years or so, hard drives prices have dropped, from around
$500,000 per gigabyte in 1981 to less than $0.03 per gigabyte
today. This includes the period of the Thailand drive crisis in 2012
that spiked hard drive prices. Matthew Komorowski has done an
admirable job of documenting the hard drive price curve through March
2014 and we’d like to fill in the blanks with our own drive purchase
data to complete the picture. As you’ll see, the hard drive pricing
curve has flattened out."
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update

Nobody won? To the contrary, the consumer won in a big big way.

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:43:16 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer
wrote:

Lynn McGuire writes:

"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...-per-gigabyte/

"For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. For the
past 35+ years or so, hard drives prices have dropped, from around
$500,000 per gigabyte in 1981 to less than $0.03 per gigabyte
today. This includes the period of the Thailand drive crisis in 2012
that spiked hard drive prices. Matthew Komorowski has done an
admirable job of documenting the hard drive price curve through March
2014 and we’d like to fill in the blanks with our own drive purchase
data to complete the picture. As you’ll see, the hard drive pricing
curve has flattened out."
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update

Nobody won? To the contrary, the consumer won in a big big way.

I'd be happier if the curve hadn't shown itself to be bottomed out some
5+ years ago. Is that all there is? Is there no way to continue to
squeeze cost out of the manufacturing process without hurting
performance or reliability, and is there no way to continue to add
capacity? I guess not. I guess things are as good as they're going to
get.

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:55:07 -0500, Mark Perkins
wrote:

Is there no way to continue to
squeeze cost out of the manufacturing process without hurting
performance or reliability, and is there no way to continue to add
capacity?

There is--but that "new generation" has yet to be invented.

On 07/12/2017 10:10 AM, wrote:

Is there no way to continue to
squeeze cost out of the manufacturing process without hurting
performance or reliability, and is there no way to continue to add
capacity?

There is--but that "new generation" has yet to be invented.

Aren't Helium-filled drives a "new generation"? Seagate (maybe others
too) is predicting 20TB drives within a few years.

Perce

On 7/12/2017 9:10 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:55:07 -0500, Mark Perkins
wrote:

Is there no way to continue to
squeeze cost out of the manufacturing process without hurting
performance or reliability, and is there no way to continue to add
capacity?

There is--but that "new generation" has yet to be invented.

The holographic drives with zero moving parts never did come about
unfortunately.

Lynn

On 7/12/2017 4:05 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 7/12/2017 9:10 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:55:07 -0500, Mark Perkins
wrote:

Is there no way to continue to
squeeze cost out of the manufacturing process without hurting
performance or reliability, and is there no way to continue to add
capacity?

There is--but that "new generation" has yet to be invented.

The holographic drives with zero moving parts never did come about
unfortunately.

There must have been too many angles in their production.


Lynn

On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:53:59 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote:

On 07/12/2017 10:10 AM, wrote:

Is there no way to continue to
squeeze cost out of the manufacturing process without hurting
performance or reliability, and is there no way to continue to add
capacity?

There is--but that "new generation" has yet to be invented.

Aren't Helium-filled drives a "new generation"? Seagate (maybe others
too) is predicting 20TB drives within a few years.

Perce


Helium is included in the table in the reference in the original
USENET article in this thread. I don't have the original article or
reference, but here is another URL from the same soucre that has a
similar table, and it includes helium drives:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...-per-gigabyte/

Also, I think that devices with no moving parts or slow random
access like tapes, should not be included in this discussion;
on spinning disklike things, which I think only are magnetic
optical as of yet.