{"id":815,"date":"2008-01-23T20:03:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T00:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2008\/01\/23\/what-is-the-most-expensive-storage-medium\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T20:04:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T00:04:38","slug":"what-is-the-most-expensive-storage-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2008\/01\/23\/what-is-the-most-expensive-storage-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the most expensive storage medium?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was waiting at the grocery store this evening, I was walking around and went past their &#8220;office supply&#8221; isle&#8230; To my surprise they had a box of 10 1.44mb floppy disks. The cost was $4.99 for roughly 14MB of disk space. (I bought a 1GB flash drive not long ago at K-Mart for $9.99)&#8230; Interestingly right next to the floppy disks there were a 10 pack of 700 MB cd-r&#8217;s.  They were $7.99&#8230;.So a little bit of math:<\/p>\n<table border=1>\n<tr>\n<td>Disk<\/td>\n<td>Size<\/td>\n<td>Cost for 1 disk<\/td>\n<td>Cost per Meg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Floppy<\/td>\n<td>1.44MB<\/td>\n<td>$0.49<\/td>\n<td>~$0.35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CD-R<\/td>\n<td>700MB<\/td>\n<td>$0.79<\/td>\n<td>$0.001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4GB Flash Drive*<\/td>\n<td>4000MB<\/td>\n<td>$34.99<\/td>\n<td>$0.008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>300GB HD*<\/td>\n<td>300,000MB<\/td>\n<td>$79.99<\/td>\n<td>$0.0003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>As you can see the Floppy disk is still the most expensive medium around. What is funny is I haven&#8217;t seen a home computer\/laptop in years that actually come with a floppy disk any more. <\/p>\n<p>*- Represents prices of said drive from a local office store sale price for this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was waiting at the grocery store this evening, I was walking around and went past their &#8220;office supply&#8221; isle&#8230; To my surprise they had a box of 10 1.44mb floppy disks. The cost was $4.99 for roughly 14MB of disk space. (I bought a 1GB flash drive not long ago at K-Mart for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2008\/01\/23\/what-is-the-most-expensive-storage-medium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the most expensive storage medium?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}