Anyone Know A Great Free, Reliable Source For Data Storage Statistics?

[lamarr3]

Any individual know a wonderful totally free, reliable source for information storage statistics? Answers to inquiries like -- how much is the world's total information storage pool? What has the trend been in price per megabyte?

[Hyun-Shik]

Cillchaoi said: 2 Wow! Talk about old times! I didn't realize that it had been a year ago since I wrote this comment. What's more, I didn't realize until now that I made a typo! Toward the end of the second paragraph, I said that I sold 120-megabyte hard drives in 2004 when it should have been 120-gigabyte. 46 months ago

[Ailin]

Wow! Talk about old times! I didn't realize that it had been a year ago since I wrote this comment. What's more, I didn't realize until now that I made a typo! Toward the end of the second paragraph, I said that I sold 120-megabyte hard drives in 2004 when it should have been 120-gigabyte.

[Eleder]

Cillchaoi said: 1 Well, I don't personally know of any data sources such as you desire to find but I can tell you from personal experience what the prices of hard drives have been like for the past 20 years or so. :-)Back around 1988, I bought a 110-megabyte Priam RLL hard drive to add to my 286/12 clone computer, which already had a 30-megabyte Miniscribe RLL hard drive in it and that Priam drive cost $747.18, including shipping charges from California. In 1993, I got a Maxtor 7546A 546-megabyte IDE hard drive from a store in Las Vegas and the drive was about $100 or so, if I remember correctly. Around 2004, I sold 120-megabyte Maxtor IDE drives to clients for about $95. Nowadays, I sell 1.5-terabyte Seagate SATA2 hard drives for about $140.As for the world's storage capacity, let's just say that it is astronomical. :-) I know that here in my office, with just the few machines I have for business use, the capacity is over 12 terabytes. In State Farm's network all across the US and Canada, they have over 1 million workstations.(I was previously contracted by State Farm to administer that headache of a network.) If each one(conservatively) has a 250GB hard drive, then that would be 250 petabytes(250,000 terabytes) of storage for just them alone. That doesn't include all their servers. 59 months ago

[Kajetan]

Well, I don't personally know of any data sources such as you desire to find but I can tell you from personal experience what the prices of hard drives have been like for the past 20 years or so. :-)Back around 1988, I bought a 110-megabyte Priam RLL hard drive to add to my 286/12 clone computer, which already had a 30-megabyte Miniscribe RLL hard drive in it and that Priam drive cost $747.18, including shipping charges from California. In 1993, I got a Maxtor 7546A 546-megabyte IDE hard drive from a store in Las Vegas and the drive was about $100 or so, if I remember correctly. Around 2004, I sold 120-megabyte Maxtor IDE drives to clients for about $95. Nowadays, I sell 1.5-terabyte Seagate SATA2 hard drives for about $140.As for the world's storage capacity, let's just say that it is astronomical. :-) I know that here in my office, with just the few machines I have for business use, the capacity is over 12 terabytes. In State Farm's network all across the US and Canada, they have over 1 million workstations.(I was previously contracted by State Farm to administer that headache of a network.) If each one(conservatively) has a 250GB hard drive, then that would be 250 petabytes(250,000 terabytes) of storage for just them alone. That doesn't include all their servers.