Well, it's happened: Hard disks have broken through the historically significant* $2/GB barrier. The drive in question is a 120GB Maxtor, now retailing for $219. Last week it was $249; two weeks ago it was $269. That's pretty rapid deflation even for a product that's seen price per unit fall by a factor of 5000 since 1990.
So the only question is: How many? The sooner I get rid of the rest of those poxy Deathstars the better.
*I just made that up.
Update: The same supplier has Opteron processors and motherboards. A bit pricy for the home user, but dirt cheap if you need a 64-bit dual-processor server.
Posted by Pixy Misa at May 17, 2003 03:05 AM | TrackBack