My first hard drive was a Syquest I believe, 44 mb, running on an Apple II, so, ProDOS’ max volume size was 32 mb. I forget how much it cost, the cartridges were 5.25 winchesters in a plastic box, and they worked great, and were what back then seemed like ridiculously portable. The printing / rendering biz’s around Grand Rapids all have ‘em, because at that time 44 mb would hold a huge amount of graphics and publisher files.
The first ad I remember for a one gig drive was in one of the deep geek mags, and priced (if memory serves) $10K — but we were all in awe, you can run an entire company on a one gig (and back then, one could). Now a camera, or phone, or even a wristwatch, comes with more than 1 gb. Anyway, the price came down fast.
The first retail terabyte drive I saw was $400, and that seemed hilarious. Now 1 tb is well under $100 (internal or external) and 128 gb flash drives are available. A four pack of 8 gb Sandisk Facets is $22 and change at, uh, one of the warehouse clubs.
SanDisc just released a 128GB Class 10 Micro SD card. It;'s priced at $ 120 at Amazon, retails at $200.
Do you remember Teraserver? It was a Microsoft project, it served up satellite images of the entire US and was a technology demonstration of their ability to create a terabyte sized server farm. It was awe inspiring at the time.
Hey, I remember Terraserver coming online, too, slick stuff back in the day.
Lastly, was farting around streetview and found myself immortalized in a pic, on the 2nd floor porch, beer in hand. Har!