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From Everything a Data Scientist Should Know About Data Management* by Phoebe Wong
…ghed over a ton, and for $3,200 a month, companies could lease the unit to store up to 5 MB of data. In the 60 years since, prices per gigabyte in DRAM has dropped from a whopping $2.64 billion in 1965 to $4.9 in 2017. Besides being magnitudes cheaper, data…ghed over a ton, and for $3,200 a month, companies could lease the unit to store up to 5 MB of data. In the 60 years since, prices per gigabyte in DRAM has dropped from a whopping $2.64 billion in 1965 to $4.9 in 2017. Besides being magnitudes cheaper, data storage also became much denser/smaller in size. A disk plat…