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Check out this historical look at prices:

Small sample taken from link above

1956 IBM 5 megabytes USD$50,000 USD$10,000/MB

1981 Apple 5 megabytes USD$3500 USD$700/MB

1988 Unknown Manufacturer 20 megabytes USD$799 USD$40/MB

1988 Unknown Manufacturer 250 megabytes USD$3995 USD$16/MB

1995 Seagate 2.1 gigabytes USD$1699 USD81¢/MB (this is the year I paid for my own computer with my own money -- Quadra 650)

1998 Quantum 6.4 gigabytes USD$479.99 USD8.63¢/MB

2004 Western Digital Caviar SE (7200rpm) 250 GB USD$249.99 USD$1./GB
Maybe that new drive ain't that expensive after all, eh?