[runeks]

It would be interesting to see that chart updated to 2017 data. It appears the downward slope becomes significantly less steep around 2009 (looks like the price dropped as much from 2006-2008 as it did in the five years 2009-2014), and I’d be interested in seeing how recent SSD prices affect this. As far as I can see, rotational HDD technology is at the end of its S-curve, whereas SSD technology is still relatively new.

[notpeter]

Backblaze recently updated that data through Q2 2017 [1]. Hard drives have only dropped to $0.028/GB. For comparison SSDs are still ~$0.40/GB (~14x).

[1]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

[2]: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/internal-hard-drive/