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Hard Drives Down To A Dollar A Gigabyte

Posted by timothy on from the inflection-points dept.

Junky191 writes "I doubt anyone else noticed this- but today is the first day where mass storage is available for $1 per gigabyte (according to pricewatch,). There are several stores now selling 120GB models for $120 shipped. This is truly an amazing milestone for those of us who once spent $500 for the fantastically large 10MB models. I just can't wait for the days when things are $1/TB." With discounts, the price has been that low for a little while.

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  1. Re:This is old news. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >looks like a homophobic mod to me.

    Clearly only a homophobe would use the word "faggot" for their name...

  2. And im gonna backup 1tb how ? by sh0rtie · · Score: 2, Offtopic



    I just can't wait for the days when things are $1/TB.

    and how do you propose backing up reliably 1 terrabyte of data ?, hard drives fail all the time, could you even contemplate losing your entire life's music collection or entire video collection cos the drive failed ? what about in years to come when you might have generations of your families data on disk .

    plus with all this reliance on magnetic based media is just an accident waiting to happen, you do realise that if one EMR pulse from the sun (or even a EMP weapon) ever reaches Earth were back to square 1, sure us as humans can survive the magnetic dose of energy but all our data/research is gone forever all cos we chose to store our knowledge on a magnet.

    the saying "never put all your eggs in one basket" comes to mind

    we really need to focus on developing a cheap non-magnetic based reliable storage medium instead of storing such massive amounts of data/work on such a fragile medium as a block of mechanically controlled magnetic iron.

    paper at times has a lot going for it even today , do you think your hard drive or data will still be usable or around in 1000 years or even 50 for that matter ?

  3. Re:Stop modding this post incorrectly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about meta moderating properly and fixing the moderator problem?

  4. Re:Stop modding this post incorrectly by Mitreya · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How giving metamoderation privileges to latecomers? :) at least the ones with non-negative carma??
    It seems that it is going to be a long while till I am eligible... it's been more than a few months since I opened my account.