{"id":4122,"date":"2013-01-17T11:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T01:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2013-01-23T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T05:26:25","slug":"cheap-cheap-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4122","title":{"rendered":"Cheap, cheap memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kogan.com\/au\/buy\/128gb-usb-3-flash-drive\/\">Kogan is selling a 128GB USB drive<\/a> for just $79 at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Which got me to check some of the memory prices I&#8217;ve recorded in times past. For example, back in July 2010 the cheapest (on a per megabyte basis) memory I could find was 4GB USB stick costing $12.00. At that price the Kogan stick would be $400.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2007 memory was an order of magnitude more expensive. The cheapest per MB was a 4GB SD card at $90. The Kogan 128GB card at those prices would have been $2,800.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s go right back another five years, to October 2002. Back then the cheapest memory I could find was in Compact Flash form, with a 256MB card costing $277. Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>At that cost per megabyte this Kogan card would not cost $79 <\/p>\n<div name=\"divHrefB\" style=\"height: 0px;width: 0px;overflow:hidden;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kupbezrecepty.com\/kupic-cialis-professional-bez-recepty.html\">Kup Cialis Professional bez recepty w Warszawie<\/a><\/div>\n<p> , but $135,000. You could buy four of them or one house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Thanks to Russ Roberts at <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/\">Cafe Hayek<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2013\/01\/some-things-are-getting-better-a-lot-better.html\">linking<\/a> to this post. Great reading there, and lots of cool economic and tech stuff at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econtalk.org\/\">Econtalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Kogan is selling a 128GB USB drive for just $79 at the moment. Which got me to check some of the memory prices I&#8217;ve recorded in times past. For example, back in July 2010 the cheapest (on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}