Historical price of computer memory and storage
This data is expressed in US dollars per terabyte (TB), adjusted for inflation. "Memory" refers to random access memory (RAM), "disk" to magnetic storage,"flash" to special memory used for rapid data access and rewriting, and "solid state" to solid-state drives (SSDs).
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