Seagate 8TB Drive For $229. We've Come A Long Way, Baby

Seagate 8TB Expansion External Desktop HDD - Hard drive, 8TB, External, USB 3.0 - STEB8000100 at TigerDirect.com. For OMG Wednesday, here is a Seagate expansion hard drive with 8 Terabytes of storage capacity for $229. I remember paying $900 for a 10 Megabyte drive in the late Eighties. Do you have any clue how much data is in a Terabyte? Much less 8 Terabytes? Let's do the math. There are 1,000 megabytes in a Gigabyte. That would be 100 of the drives I paid $900 apiece for in 1988. There are 1,000 Gigabytes in a Terabyte. That would be 100,000 of the drives I paid $900 apiece for in 1988. This drive has 8 Terabytes of capacity and costs $229. That is 800,000 of the drives I paid $900 apiece for in 1988. I will allow you to compare price per megabyte of data between then and now. Do the math.