先週、このタイプのUSBフラッシュドライブを入手しましたが、その小ささに少し驚きました。それなのに、16GBものデータを保存できるのです。データストレージは過去10年間で本当に大きく進化しました。
10 年前、まだ大学に通っていた頃、Php5,500 で 13GB の容量を持つ新しい Seagate HDD を買ったことを今でも覚えています。今日では、同じかそれ以上の容量を、その価格の 5 分の 1 で、通常の SIM カードサイズのデバイスとして入手できます。
その頃、料金は約1GBあたり500ペソでした。現在は約1GBあたり5.60ペソ（1.5テラバイトのSeagate HDDは8,370ペソ）です。これは、1バイトあたりの価格でほぼ100分の1となっています。
さらに半世紀ほど前に戻れば、その差はもっと大きかったでしょう。私の最初のハードディスクドライブは、1990年代に存在したハードディスクメーカーのプライアム（Priam）製の 20MB HDD でした。
ストレージ容量と価格の推移をグラフ化できれば、今後10年でペタバイト規模になることは間違いありません。
I remember my old Pentium MMX 166MHz PC. It had a 2GB hard drive, and it was the second high-spec back then…
Nowadays, I could buy a 2GB thumb drive the size of a small nailcutter…
My first HDD was 1.2g on my 586 pc. Now im shopping for a TB for my PC. My 1st thumb drive or flash disk was 64mb, it cost me 3k pesos. I was the very 1st to use such device in our company. Some people haven’t even heard or know what that thing was. They were still carrying those 3 inches floppy. Now I got a 16g and an 8g flash drive with me. Both are cheaper than the 64mb that I had. Moores Law is really a reality. I hope the Philippines will also adapt specialy with the pricing. BTW I just hate it when I am being asked for my USB instead of saying thumb drive or flash disk. I would want to say: ummm, my usb is in my laptop/pc but I did bring my thumb drive. duh! peace!
Kingston sa CDRKing. Forgot how much exactly but it’s around Php1.5k
I remember upgrading my 500MB HDD to 2GB, I was in 6th grade, hahaha. I also remember when my dad gave me a 125mb flash drive, now I can buy 4GB Flash drive with the same price :)
Sir Abe, saan nyo po nabili yan and how much? pretty neat yung design eh :) I might get one:)
hehehe
memories come back on how excited I was back then to get an upgrade from 500mb to 1.2GB HDD, I was so happy then.
that’s really true. bigger volume of capacity but smaller size. I read a news one or two years ago, it said “storage technology goes with pornography” which is really part of truth. hehe
According to Moore’s Law, “the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits will double every year”.
You are a Computer Engineer.. I think you heard this one yuga.
the 1 GB hard drive! :) and a pentium 100 wooohoo!
i remember when i was in elementary, my mom bought me a desktop pc with four 5gb hard drives for more than 40k pesos
moore’s law: The prediction by Gordon Moore (cofounder of the Intel Corporation) that the number of transistors on a microprocessor would double periodically (approximately every 18 months).
Just 4 years ago, the cost of a 256MB china mp3 player from CDRKing is 2900 pesos!
I’m constantly amazed at how much storage has gotten cheaper. I remember paying P5k for 20GB way way back. Now, I have a 16GB thumb drive that I got for p1.2k only, and 320GB HDD is now normal in most laptops.
Now, if only SSD prices could fall faster…
My very first HDD was a Seagate 40GB mga anu pa ko nun, grade 5. now, 1st year college na, hindi na kasya ang 1TB. am now running on 4.5TB on my desktop PC. full of photography/film stuffs.
abe, what’s the brand of your storage device? how much? where I can buy that stuff? i like that one too. the one in the pics
my old sony-ericson w800 with MEMORY STICK PRO DUO with 516mb which i had to buy at 3k because of a defective Memory Stick that was included.But now with 3k, 4gb PRO DUO is already considered expensive…how time flies…
and 1gb or 2gb of memory space was already considered big in those “good old days”; but now 8gb is not enough…
and to think not long ago i didnt even know what a byte was…
dami ng available ngayon sa CDRking na 16GB..
naalala ko tuloy ung 8mb ko na flash drive na 2.3k bili ko ahuhuhu. tagal na nun.
Classic conversation quote around circa 95:
Me: 20MB yung nabili kong hard disk para sa Wearnes PC sa bahay.
Friend: 20MB! Ano balak mong gawin sa computer mo, server?
good old memories. :D
ciao!
ako naman ang natatandaan ko pang naabutan ko is 64mb flash drive = Php 1.2k
wait, i meant 13 mb as in megabyte harddisk
yeah, my first harddisk was a 16 gb seagate, which cost a small fortune.
HI THERE YOU ARE RIGHT WE ALREADY AT TERABYTES IN A GOOGLE LIGHT YEARS WE SHOULD BEYOND UNLIMITED OR INFINT DATA WITH A BLACK HOLE MICRO SD CARDS