Moore's Law

[dsrtao]

My corollary to Moore's Law, Areal Density Variant: buy the disk space you need, not the disk space you think you'll need.

I was pleased when I could buy a good hard disk for a dollar a megabyte. (340MB, 1996)

I was pleased when I could buy a good hard disk for
$100 a gigabyte (4GB, 1998)

I was pleased when I could buy a good hard disk for $10 a gigabyte. (40GB, 2000)

I was pleased when I could buy a good hard disk for $1 a gigabyte. (250GB, 2004)

I am now pleased to buy good hard disks for ten cents a gigabyte. (1.5TB, 2008)

Comments

Re: Parkinson's Law

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Some years ago sml and I extrapolated the craze in video now occurring just by wondering "what's bigger than audio?" We came up with 'worlds' as the next step...entire simulations of places and things. We'll see if it pans out.

AS for your second point, Local storage got cheaper than local bandwidth did. Much, much cheaper. But the iPhone(/generic smartphone) is close to caught up -- I can stream music and crappy video to it with no difficulties, which means I don't bother to store videos on it at all.