Last I read, storage capacity per dollar has been increasing faster than Moore's Law over the last decade or so. I tracked down what appears to be the origin o

Last I read, storage capacity per dollar has been increasing faster than Moore's Law over the last decade or so. I tracked down what appears to be the origin of these yottabyte claims: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/nov/05/whos-in-big-brothers-database/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/nov/05/whos-in... Based on that, it sounds like the yottabyte claims refer to raw, unprocessed data collected. Off the bat, I'm willing to believe in a 2 orders of magnitude decrease after data reduction techniques are applied to the raw data. My experience with data collected from telescopes was that we got about 100:1 reduction on the raw data versus what went into permanent storage. The San Antonio site was news to me, though obviously no big secret since that book was published years ago.