storage
Storage Cost comparisons
by adam on Oct.22, 2008, under computers, storage
I’ve been looking around at what some new storage would cost me – looking for a few TB of space to cover all of my digital media, as well as to allow for easy growth in the future. As part of this, I spent some time figuring out what is currently most cost effective, from a dollars-per-gigabyte perspective. This isn’t always obvious, as there are a range of drive sizes, and variations within each size between different manufacturers.
This stuff changes pretty substantially year to year, so it’s worthwhile to go back and see exactly where the sweet spot is. Today, from a cost-per-gig standpoint, the Seagate 1.5TB and the Samsung 1TB discs barely nudge ahead, coming in at a mere $0.12/GB.
Here’s a quick break down of that statistical information, as of October 21, 2008:
(edit: fixed messed up pricing for Samsung disks).
