I cut my teeth on data warehousing in the mid 1990's and I remember when a 1TB database was considered a really big deal. As in, it required very expensive hardware and software an a ton of custom engineering. Now we have thumbnail sized microSD cards that size.
That's a lot of data. The first harddrive I saw was a Tandy. 5 MB capacity, cost $1,000 and was as big as a pc itself. You had to issue a command to park the read heads before powering off lol. My father recently passed away, and he still has that thing along with his early tandy computers (TRS-80 in various iterations through the 4P). You were sooo 'leet in '83 if you had one.
Think about the incredible amount engineering involved to design and manufacture this new card - millions of lines of code when you consider all the design and validation tools used. What a great time to be alive!
Which means you can now run a ~1TB database (poorly) on a $35 raspberry pi by adding a $450 card. Adjusted for 1990 inflation, that $500 becomes $298, though obviously it's not a very practical setup for somebody who would actually need a 1TB database.
Wasn't even that long ago (maybe 4-5 years) that my old company dropped $150k on a couple of fusionIO cards to support and Oracle DB that was 4TB. (I think that was 3 servers total, to get the standby, and the failover in another DC)
