[ Thanks to Andrew
Ziem for this link. ]
“Kryder’s Law, a variation of Moore’s Law, describes the trend
‘magnetic disk areal storage density doubles annually’. In other
words, you don’t want to know how much I paid for a 40MB Seagate
MFM drive in 1989, but today 1000GB drives rule the day for much
less money. This increase in capacity follows a predictable
trend.“Conversely to Kryder’s Law and Moore’s Law (which basically
describes computers becoming predictably faster), Wirth’s Law
states software becomes larger, more complex, and slower: in the
end the win on one end is washed out by the loss of the
other…”