From the title you might assume i'm referring to PCI-e SSD storage or something similar, but i'm actually referring to the classic 1.44mb floppy disk!
Someone in the office discovered an old floppy disk in a laptop bag they were clearing out, i said in jest "Surely can't buy those any more?". I was wrong.....
A quick Google turned up a medially of stores offering brand new packs of 10x 1.44mb floppy disks at varying prices. To keep it simple i've picked one of the cheaper offers - £5.51 per pack available from goodstall.co.uk (never heard of them, but we'll assume they could deliver.)
http://www.goodsstall.co.uk/87410---verbatim-35-disks-10-pack---verbatim-32213-p.asp
We often refer to our cost of storage as pence per gigabyte (ppg), based on this the good old floppy disk is going to cost us a staggering 38,263ppg!!
To put this in to context, a run of the mill 2TB USB external HDD would only cost around 22ppg.
Comparatively, even this ludicrously expensive 3.2TB PCI-e SSD storage would 'only' cost 7298ppg
http://www.span.com/product/OCZ-PCI-Express-Z-Drive-R4-CM88-ZD4CM88-FH-3-2T-PCI-Express-v2-x8-SSD-3-2TB-SSD~34393
Staggering, huh?
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