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Re:Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing ... by debacle on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @01:55PM (#7467528)
Moore's law doesn't say shit about storage.
Re:Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing ... by lsc on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @02:02PM (#7467592)
>Moore's law doesn't say shit about storage.

Yes, the cost progression of storage is expressed by Kryder's law, and is actually faster than moore's law. (well, in terms of storage space, not storage speed.)

Of course, both are observations and not true laws; things will get interesting if/when the capital and power required per unit compute (or per unit ram or storage) stops dropping.

But, my point is that in the past, the costs involved in providing compute infrastructure has fallen dramatically over time, and most people expect this to continue, at least for a while.

Re:Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing ... by gwern on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @02:40PM (#7467863)
> Yes, the cost progression of storage is expressed by Kryder's law, and is actually faster than moore's law. (well, in terms of storage space, not storage speed.)

In theory, not necessarily in practice. The Thai floods caused a multi-year pause in Kryder's law we're still recovering from. (I'm not sure how robust Kryder's law is - there's a lot less data and analysis of it than Moore's, since that's the famous one.)

Re:Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing ... by voellm on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @02:24PM (#7467753)
Check out Kryder's Law for Storage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder