Windows Phone Thoughts: What Is The Most You Have Spent Per MB on Flash Memory?

Ok, you are going to have to go back into your personal way-back machine to figure this out. I was looking for an extra 2GB card today - you can never have too much flash memory - and the store was out, but they had a 1GB SD card for $32.99. That translates into roughly 3 cents per MB. I immediately thought of my first flash card. It was a 15MB Sandisk Compact Flash card. That's right, 15MB! I don't know when they started selling them in in factors of 2, but in 1998, they didn't. It was $76.43, including tax and shipping. That works out to $5.09 per MB! And at the time, I thought it was worth every penny. It immediately enabled me to remove almost all apps from my Nino 320's RAM and put them on the storage card. In 1998, 15MB on a PDA was huge. This was when other PDAs had no storage card slots and came with 1-2MB of RAM. I still hae that card somewhere in my gadget collection.

It is hard to believe who much the cost has come down. I thought paying $120 for a 128MB CF card a few years ago was a good deal. 8O