storage cost

Data visualization: Cost of Hard Drive storage space

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Here are the visualization:

1982 – 2009:

1982 2009 storage cost

2000 – 2008

2000 2008 storage cost

I grabbed data from: http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte And http://ns1758.ca/winch/winchest.html – Thanks!

Conclusion

Storage cost has drastically decreased. Mathematically, Storage cost has decreased exponentially. No wonder we can store lot’s of data for few dollars and no wonder that the age of Big Data has already arrived!