Better to Be a Buyer than a Seller of External Storage

By Paul Kedrosky · June 6, 2005 · ·

Neat duelling stats in the booming external storage market (from IDC):

  • Year-over-year revenue growth: 6.7% (to $3.8-billion)
  • Year-over-year capacity growth: 58.6% (to 409 petabytes in Q1)

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Comments

  1. Ben Hyde says:
    June 6, 2005 at 11:10 am

    Is there well known Moore’s law, Guilder’s law equivalent for disk space? My rule of thumb as always been 100 ever decade; or around +60% a year. Surprisingly close to the rates show in the posting. Guilder’s law is what? 300% a year – interesting times.

  2. Brad DeLong's Website says:
    June 6, 2005 at 8:25 pm

    External Storage Price Trends

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