On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Abohfu venant zinkeng <vice...@gmail.com> wrote: > This site was written by a person (in 2009) who had considered this amazing > trend. He collected a lot of data about hard drive capacity and price. The > formula he extrapolated by using the data he found is > > cost per gigabyte = 10-0.2502(year-1980) + 6.304 > where year is the year for which the extrapolated cost was desired. This > formula is based on data from 1980 to 2010.
A nice illustration in the perils of extrapolation. Per the formula, hard drives should be $0.006 per gigabyte now. I don't see anything on newegg.com for less than $0.03 per gigabyte; the best deals appear to be at the 2 TB level. And we're only 4 years out of the data range. It also seems odd to quantify technical advancement in a way that is easily affected by fluctuations in the strength of the US dollar. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list