HDD Improvements Outperformed Moore’s Law

By factor of 800%

By Jean Jacques Maleval | March 7, 2023 at 2:01 pm

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Storage improvements have outperformed Moore’s Law by a factor of 800%
In the 1980s, you could get a drive that was the size of two microwaves and the weight of a full refrigerator for $10,000 (roughly $27,000 today). It held 470 megabytes. Not gigabytes. Not terabytes. Megabytes.