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    37 months ago

    Not at all. The price of storage has plummeted so much that most video games comfortably use ~100GB for large games and don’t care because even SSD storage is extremely cheap.

    If you don’t believe me, here’s a post on Reddit that shows it off pretty well.

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      37 months ago

      There’s two ways to take that statement. The price of a hard drive will remain the same, or the price per memory unit will remain the same. Price per hard drive remains largely the same. Price per unit of memory drops.

      The only exception here is SSDs are slowly dropping in price to meet magnetic disk drives.

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      7 months ago

      I’m not exactly sure what that chart is using for data sources. Historically every couple of years I’ve bought whatever goes on sale for around $200 and added it to my unraid.

      I was able to pick up exos 14s a couple of years ago. And they’re still not back down to $200.

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        27 months ago

        It looks like it depends on the drive size but also I think the pandemic has leveled this out in recent years. Some additional data I found by BackBlaze shows a bit more of the story though they have changed their drive sizes which leads to a more interesting graph.