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The factual accuracy of this diagram or the file name is disputed.

Reason: Claims to be based on File:HDD capacity over time.svg with no indication issues with *that* version addressed, therefore repeated here. WARNING: This graph is highly misleading for the early years, since it is based upon advertised retail products and at least in the 1980s misses the higher capacity drives which generally were not ~~offered~~ advertised with published retail prices. For example, the highest capacity disk drive listed and plotted for 1981 is 26MB while the actual highest capacity HDD then offered was the IBM 3380 at 2,520 MB per disk drive (2 HDAs per disk drive box). By the late 90s high performance drives were readily available at retail. Tom94022 06:10, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

For usage see: {{disputed diagram|why}}

DescriptionHard drive capacity over time.svg	Hard disk capacity between 1980 and present (2023), based on for-retail products. For data, data source, and discussion, see Talk page on Commons and down below the comments in the data. Hankwang 17:00, 2 March 2008 (UTC), update 20:38, 18 September 2011 (UTC), update of data as well as completely new python based code including a good fit to the data from Eheran (talk) 09:30, 6 May 2023 (UTC) 05 Mai 2023 (UTC).
Date	5 May 2023, 16:11 (UTC)
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Author	File:HDD capacity over time.svg Eheran Vector: {{code to create this plot can be found here on github}}

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File:Hard_drive_capacity_over_time.png licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0, GFDL, PD-self
- 2009-01-04T01:10:42Z Hankwang 600x400 (4486 Bytes) update for 2009
- 2008-03-02T16:45:27Z Hankwang 600x400 (4590 Bytes) Updated with 2008 info
- 2006-10-27T23:34:49Z Omegatron 585x428 (11943 Bytes) [[w:Hard drive|]] capacity over time. Based on [[en:Image:KrydersLaw.png]]

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:26, 15 April 2024	576 × 432 (87 KB)	Eheran	Updated - 24 TB HDDs avaliable
	09:35, 6 May 2023	576 × 432 (87 KB)	Eheran	New code for plot generation in python, new regression formula, updated data
	11:23, 27 December 2018	700 × 500 (43 KB)	JoKalliauer	https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AHard_drive_capacity_over_time.svg&type=revision&diff=332389255&oldid=332102543
	23:32, 22 December 2018	700 × 500 (44 KB)	JoKalliauer	updated with data from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festplattenlaufwerk#Entwicklung_der_Speicherkapazit%C3%A4ten_der_verschiedenen_Baugr%C3%B6%C3%9Fen
	21:11, 18 September 2011	700 × 500 (30 KB)	Hankwang	Updated with 2011 data
	16:14, 25 February 2009	600 × 400 (30 KB)	Rentar	{{Information \|Description=Based on en:Image:KrydersLaw.png: Current version including 2008 data. Script and data to generate the plot below. I donate this version (including the 2008 data) to the public domain. Hankwang 17:00, 2 M