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1vudtwtn6RQAbTEJlioxxvTCVWwI8fIQeRIGj1h9AokA the-price-of-computer-storage-has-fallen-exponentially-since-the-1950s data-insight 
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                    "text": "A 256-gigabyte storage capacity \u2014 commonly found in standard laptops sold today \u2014 would have cost around 20 billion dollars in the 1950s. (That\u2019s in today\u2019s prices.)",
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                    "text": "And cost has not been the only improvement: modern solid-state drives offer much faster and more reliable data access than early magnetic and hard disk drives.",
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                            "text": "Read more on the exponential growth of computing capabilities",
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    "title": "The price of computer storage has fallen exponentially since the 1950s",
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 1 2024-05-13 14:34:37 2024-05-21 06:43:44 2024-05-16 09:46:39 unlisted ALBJ4Lt4uhNjhoY0bMtb-sWpArMVN9-kPc6gNKOmmoivYmVbL-9SyTPSBFH00orGZuphjfI68a0GBPH1EGLCkA   <Image filename="historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage-desktop.png"/> This chart shows the dramatic fall in the price of various computer storage types between 1956 and 2023. It relies on the data carefully collected by the computer scientist John C. McCallum. In the last 70 years, the price for a given unit of storage has been divided by almost nine orders of magnitude. A 256-gigabyte storage capacity, commonly found in standard laptops sold today, would have cost around 2 billion dollars in the 1950s. But price has not been the only improvement: modern solid-state drives offer vastly faster and more reliable data access than early magnetic and hard disk drives. [Read more on the exponential growth of computing capabilities](https://ourworldindata.org/moores-law) → The price of computer storage has fallen exponentially since the 1950s

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