In last 10 years i dont know why HDD and RAM capacity doesnt improve much.
I still have 1TB hdd produced @ 2011 and the price alsois still the same when i bought it
Part of that is because platter-based drives have certain base costs associated with manufacturing them. In terms of the materials, engineering, and shipping that go into a finished drive, it doesn't make much sense to sell new lower-capacity drives for much under $50. And since 1TB of storage has been able to fit on a single 3.5" platter since late 2011, today's single-platter 1TB desktop drives cost nearly as much to manufacture as they did then. Some gains have been made at higher capacities though, particularly since some drives are now able to fit up to 2TB per platter. It's now possible to get some 2TB drives for as little as $50, and 4TB drives for as little as $80 (if you don't mind drives utilizing slower SMR tech).
Hard drives are mainly best relegated to bulk storage now that SSDs have reached viable price levels for mainstream use, and most home and business systems don't tend to need multiple terabytes of storage. So, aside from those storing lots of video and other large data files, the market for hard drives in PCs is shrinking as people shift to SSDs, and lower capacities like 1TB generally don't make much sense for bulk data storage.
Now certainly a doubling of capacity per-platter over the course of nearly a decade isn't great compared to decades past, though that's largely down to the manufacturers running into limits with what they can do at the small scales that the data is written at. You see a similar situation with some other components like CPUs as well. Today's fastest desktop processors are typically not much more than 50% faster at most tasks than those from a decade ago on a performance-per-core basis, even if the number of cores at any given price level has roughly doubled in recent years. As for system RAM, the need for higher capacities hasn't really been growing as fast as it once was, so there's not much incentive for people to get more.
I'll believe it when I see it.. If they want HDD's to continue being a mainstream thing. They are going to have to drop the price dramatically.
Still paying $99-$139 for new 4TB drives in 2021
Realistically, the "mainstream" home and business users are moving to SSDs, as hard drives have already become obsolete as far as primary system storage goes, and the manufacturers know it doesn't really make much sense for them to compete in that market. Hard drives are now primarily relegated to servers and the more niche audience of home and business users who need lots of local storage, so I wouldn't expect pricing to dramatically improve anytime soon.
Every few years its a new "Imagine backing up that much" figure. I can remember in 1999 thinking 500mb of hdd space was too much, and in the days where the biggest files were database records, not movies, that made sense. More space just gives people new ways to waste it,
Either the date or the capacity isn't quite right. 500MB of hard drive storage would have been pretty normal for a new computer by around 1994-1995. By 1999, CD burners were already appearing in home computers that were capable of holding more data than that on an inexpensive disc, and the hard drives of new PCs were getting into the 10+GB range.
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