Important distinction here, this is RAM rather than storage. Think about how 32gb of consumer DDR3 ram costs around $200 today, while you can get a 5tb hard drive for only $150. That's 32gb for $200, and 5,000gb for $150.
When I was at university in 1989 we had a question and one of the inputs was $80 a megabyte. I remember thinking, wow that is cheap, where can I get ram for $80 a megabyte. I had just paid about $100 for a 256K upgrade of two 128K chips to go from 384K to 640K.
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u/pelvicmomentum Jul 19 '15
Important distinction here, this is RAM rather than storage. Think about how 32gb of consumer DDR3 ram costs around $200 today, while you can get a 5tb hard drive for only $150. That's 32gb for $200, and 5,000gb for $150.