the pace of things

Upon seeing this ridiculous deal for a 250 gig Seagate hard drive for $80, I decided to do some math.

I know this subject is continuously beaten into the ground, but it's still shocking to me when I really think about it.

250 gigs for $80 comes out to 32 cents a gigabyte.

Around 1995-ish, my family bought a new hard drive for our home machine, for the good price (at that time) of about $400. For a 40 meg drive.

40 megs for $400 comes out to $10000 a gigabyte.

So over the course of one decade, hard drives have become about 31,000 times cheaper. That's not a bad rate of progress.