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Hard Drive Memory Lane

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-school-like-the-old-school dept.

Chabil Ha' writes "CNET has gathered together some good old nostalgia from the photo vault. What high-tech product advances the fastest? It's probably the hard drive. The capacity doubles easily every two years and sometimes every year, faster even than the chip progress described by Moore's Law. The first drives took up storage closets. Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a phone."

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  1. Stupid Comparisons by Chmarr · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From the article:
    The going rate was $7.81 a megabyte, 38 percent more than the price of oil at the time.

    Huh? What kind of comparison is that?