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\"Seagate<\/p>\n

No, not 3TB…3GB. We stumbled across this scan of a Best Buy news ad from 1996<\/a>. “30-Message Pagers,” “Motorola Cellular Flip Phone,” “28.8 kbps modem”\u2014what a trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite ads, for obvious reasons, is for hard drives:
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nAt those prices, a Backblaze Storage Pod<\/a> today would cost $18,000,000!<\/strong>
\n(45 drives x 3GB x 1000GB per TB x $400)<\/p>\n

The roughly 220 Pods that we have at this point would cost nearly $4 billion!<\/p>\n

I love the progress of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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