Moore's Law

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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)