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The storage limit for ATA-1 compliant disks introduced in 1994. 1.6 × 10 12 bits (200 gigabytes) – capacity of a hard disk that would be considered average as of 2008. In 2005 a 200 GB harddisk cost US$100, [5] equivalent to $156 in 2023. As of April 2015, this is the maximum capacity of a fingernail-sized microSD card. 2 41
Subcompact (15 mm × 12.5 mm × 1.2 mm), optional DRM, up to 16 GB Sony PS Vita Memory Card 2012 64 GB Subcompact (15 mm × 12.5 mm × 1.6 mm [7]), compulsory DRM, up to 64 GB, proprietary (can be used on PS Vita only) P2 (storage media) Panasonic MicroP2: 2012 64 GB
Unlocked and locked SD cards Sony 64 GB SF-M Tough Series UHS-II SDXC Memory Card is one of the few cards in the market without a sliding tab on the write protect notch. Most full-size SD cards have a "mechanical write protect switch" allowing the user to advise the host computer that the user wants the device to be treated as read-only.
In 1989, a 40 MB hard drive cost $1200, or $30/MB. And in 2018, 4 Tb drives sold for $75, or 1.9¢/GB, an improvement of 1.5 million since 1989 and 520 million since the RAMAC. This is without adjusting for inflation, which increased prices nine-fold from 1956 to 2018.
A personal computer might include a few megabytes of fast but volatile and expensive SRAM as the CPU cache, several gigabytes of slower DRAM for program memory, and 128 GB-8 TB of the slow but non-volatile flash memory or 1-10 terabytes of "spinning platters" hard disk drive for long-term storage.
The holiday deals out here for external storage almost seem too good to be true, particularly if you have purchased storage devices for a decade or more. ... but the plummeting cost of external ...
16 GB: DDR5 DRAM laptop memory under $40 (as of early 2024) 32/64/128 GB: Three common sizes of USB flash drives; 1 TB: The size of a $30 hard disk (as of early 2024) 6 TB: The size of a $100 hard disk (as of early 2022) 16 TB: The size of a small/cheap $130 (as of early 2024) enterprise SAS hard disk drive
In January 2013, tech company Kingston, released a flash drive with 1 TB of storage. [24] The first USB 3.1 type-C flash drives, with read/write speeds of around 530 MB/s, were announced in March 2015. [25] By July 2016, flash drives with 8 to 256 GB capacity were sold more frequently than those with capacities between 512 GB and 1 TB.