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    From Lynn McGuire@[email protected] to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Tue Nov 29 13:06:48 2022
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    “Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte”
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

    “When Backblaze purchased hard drives back in 2009, we paid over $0.11
    per gigabyte. In 2017, when we did a review of the cost of hard drives,
    the cost per gigabyte had fallen to just below $0.03 per gigabyte.
    Today, we can get 16TB hard drives for about $0.014 per gigabyte on
    average. That’s not quite a penny, but we think we’ll get there soon enough. In the meantime, let’s look at our hard drive purchases over the years and see what we can learn about the cost per gigabyte of hard
    drive storage.”

    Lynn
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  • From Char Jackson@[email protected] to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Wed Nov 30 12:15:04 2022
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:06:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

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

    �When Backblaze purchased hard drives back in 2009, we paid over $0.11
    per gigabyte. In 2017, when we did a review of the cost of hard drives,
    the cost per gigabyte had fallen to just below $0.03 per gigabyte.
    Today, we can get 16TB hard drives for about $0.014 per gigabyte on
    average. That�s not quite a penny, but we think we�ll get there soon
    enough. In the meantime, let�s look at our hard drive purchases over the >years and see what we can learn about the cost per gigabyte of hard
    drive storage.�

    I like the trend and hope it continues.

    --- Synchronet 3.19c-Linux NewsLink 1.113