DriveSavers takes us down harddrive memory lane

Actually, the future was yesterday. I'm not quite sure what that makes today, but the future was definitely yesterday.

2006 - 6GB for $400?!?!?
I believe you can get a *bit* more than 6GB for $400 now...

I also suspect they're exaggerating just a little for promotional effect. In 1987, a brand new Mac II would set you back $5500, and incuded a 40MB 5.25" hard drive.

Maybe they meant 1975?

Cory Doctorow: "Follow the storage performance/size/capacity/price trendline out 10 or 15 years, and we get to the hard-drive that John Gilmores been describing: the size of a sugar-cube, costing $1-2, powered off of the occassional hard shake, and capacious enough to store every word ever uttered, every song ever sung, every painting ever painted, every movie ever shot, and every word ever written, at a resolution that can be magnified into the microscale without distortion."