![]() ![]() Thank you, Cecilia! The 265,322 number is not precise-some drives were purchased before 2009, some drives were purchased and never put into service, and, occasionally, we received a small number of test drives from manufacturers. We even recorded each of the hundreds of hard drives purchased during our drive farming days in 2011 and our crowdsourcing days in 2012. In that time, we’ve purchased 265,332 hard drives. How Many Drives?īackblaze has purchase records going back to 2009. In the meantime, let’s look at our hard drive purchases over the years and see what we can learn about the cost per gigabyte of hard drive storage. ![]() That’s not quite a penny, but we think we’ll get there soon enough. Today, we can get 16TB hard drives for about $0.014 per gigabyte on average. In 2017, when we did a review of the cost of hard drives, the cost per gigabyte had fallen to just below $0.03 per gigabyte. ![]() When Backblaze purchased hard drives back in 2009, we paid over $0.11 per gigabyte. Instead, how about “a penny for a gigabyte of hard disk”? That’s new, tech-y, and, well, it’s almost true. “A penny for your thoughts” is a common boomer expression (so says my 23 year old). ![]()
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