Re: What’s the future of photography and videography when storage is getting insanely expensive?
Outstanding wrote:
Lately I’ve been wondering where this hobby/profession is headed. Cameras keep getting better every year, higher resolution photos, 6K/8K video, RAW video, higher bitrates etc. But the cost of actually storing all this data seems to be exploding.
Storage costs are “exploding” right now primarily due to the demands of AI-driven data-center construction. That’s an anomaly that manufacturers will eventually deal with. The long term cost trajectory for storage has been and will almost certainly be to increase capacity and speed and decrease cost.
So don’t mistake the current anomaly for “how it will be.”
In inflation-adjusted terms, the costs of storage have plummeted over the years and will continue to do so. Even with the current demand-induced spike in prices, they are still lower per unit of storage than they were years ago.
To be fair, at various times during the “digital revolution” we’ve all been momentarily taken aback by what storage can cost, especially if you need a lot of it! (In inflation-adjusted terms, the cost of an early 5 MEGAbyte hard drive would shock you!)
Re: What’s the future of photography and videography when storage is getting insanely expensive?
Outstanding wrote:
Lately I’ve been wondering where this hobby/profession is headed. Cameras keep getting better every year, higher resolution photos, 6K/8K video, RAW video, higher bitrates etc. But the cost of actually storing all this data seems to be exploding.
Storage costs are “exploding” right now primarily due to the demands of AI-driven data-center construction. That’s an anomaly that manufacturers will eventually deal with. The long term cost trajectory for storage has been and will almost certainly be to increase capacity and speed and decrease cost.
So don’t mistake the current anomaly for “how it will be.”
In inflation-adjusted terms, the costs of storage have plummeted over the years and will continue to do so.
To be fair, at various times during the “digital revolution” we’ve all been momentarily taken aback by what storage can cost, especially if you need a lot of it! (In inflation-adjusted terms, the cost of an early 5 MEGAbyte hard drive you shock you!)
Jul 31, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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