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Data Storage has really gone a long way

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief March 18, 2009 · 1 min read

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Kumuha ako ng isang thumb drive na ganito noong nakaraang linggo at medyo nagtaka kung gaano ito ka-maliit kahit kaya nitong dalhin ang 16GB na data. Talagang malaki ang pag-unlad ng storage ng data sa loob ng huling dekada.

Naaalala ko pa ang nangyari noong siyam na taon na nakaraa, habang nasa kolehiyo pa ako, nang makakuha ako ng bagong Seagate HDD na may 13GB capacity sa presyong Php5,500. Ngayon, maaari mo nang makakuhanin ang ganito o mas malaking kapasidad sa parehong presyo o kaya ay sa isang ikalimang bahagi lamang nito, at kasama na ang sukat ng isang karaniwang SIM card.

16gb flash drive

Noong mga araw na iyon, ang presyo ay humigit-kumulang ₱500 bawat GB. Ngayon naman ay humigit-kumulang ₱5.60 bawat GB (isang 1.5TeraByte na Seagate HDD ay nagkakahalaga ng ₱8,370). Ibig sabihin, halos daan-daan beses mas mura ang bawat byte kumpara noon.

Balikin pa ang ibang kalahating dekada at mas malaki pa ang pagkakaiba -- ang unang hard drive ko ay isang 20MB HDD mula sa Priam (isang tagagawa ng hard drive noong mga 90s).

Kung magkakaroon kayo ng pagbabahagi sa rate para sa storage capacity at ang presyo nito, sigurado akong makikipag-usap tayo tungkol sa petabytes sa susunod na dekada.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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43 Comments

james braselton · 17 years ago

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

kenshinflyer · 17 years ago

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…

GensanBoy · 17 years ago

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!

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 17 years ago

Kingston sa CDRKing. Forgot how much exactly but it’s around Php1.5k

AloofKid · 17 years ago

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:)

Angelo Panares · 17 years ago

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.

Darren · 17 years ago

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

information · 17 years ago

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.

Andre Marcelo-Tanner · 17 years ago

the 1 GB hard drive! :) and a pentium 100 wooohoo!

ogago21 · 17 years ago

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).

Gene · 17 years ago

Just 4 years ago, the cost of a 256MB china mp3 player from CDRKing is 2900 pesos!

Anne · 17 years ago

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…

seoulbox.com · 17 years ago

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.

kiko · 17 years ago

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

Pedro · 17 years ago

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…