Storage capacity (Storage) over time
Capacity of the mass storage fitted to the machine, flash, disk, cartridge. Shares a quantity with memory capacity and answers a different question, so the two never share a row: one is where a program runs, the other is where it is kept. Makers state storage decimally, unlike memory, and the figure is recorded in the unit the source used.
- Device scope
- storage
- Method
- Design capacity
- Plotted in
- byte
Chart
15 figures from 7 machines, spanning 2007 to 2020. The lowest storage capacity here is 4 GB (Apple iPhone (1st generation), 2007) and the highest is 825 GB (Sony PlayStation 5, 2020). That is a range of about 206× within one comparability group; the figures are plotted in B. Points use the release date of the machine the figure belongs to. The table below lists absent figures with their recorded reasons.
Data
| Machine | Released | Figure | Confidence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iPhone (1st generation) 4 GB model | June 2007 | 4 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone (1st generation) 8 GB model | June 2007 | 8 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 3GS | June 2009 | 8 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 4 16 GB model | June 2010 | 16 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 4 32 GB model | June 2010 | 32 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 5s 16 GB model | September 2013 | 16 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 5s 32 GB model | September 2013 | 32 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 5s 64 GB model | September 2013 | 64 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 6s 128 GB model | September 2015 | 128 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 6s 16 GB model | September 2015 | 16 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 6s 32 GB model | September 2015 | 32 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone 6s 64 GB model | September 2015 | 64 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone X 256 GB model | November 2017 | 256 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Apple iPhone X 64 GB model | November 2017 | 64 GB | Vendor-rated | |
| Sony PlayStation 5 Launch console | November 2020 | 825 GB | Vendor-rated provisional | |
| Atari 2600 Atari 2600 launch cartridge | September 1977 | not applicable Cartridges are removable and vary by title; the cited source does not support one fixed capacity for the console. | not plotted | — |
| Nintendo Entertainment System | October 1985 | not applicable Game cartridges are removable media and their ROM capacity varies by title; no cartridge capacity is part of the base console. | not plotted | — |
| Sega Master System | June 1986 | not applicable Game cartridges are removable media and their ROM capacity varies by title; no cartridge capacity is part of the base console. | not plotted | — |
| NEC PC Engine | October 1987 | not applicable Game cartridges are removable media and their ROM capacity varies by title; no cartridge capacity is part of the base console. | not plotted | — |
| Sega Mega Drive | October 1988 | not applicable Game cartridges are removable media and their ROM capacity varies by title; no cartridge capacity is part of the base console. | not plotted | — |
| Nintendo Game Boy | April 1989 | not applicable Game cartridges are removable media and their ROM capacity varies by title; no cartridge capacity is part of the base console. | not plotted | — |
| SNK Neo Geo AES | April 1990 | not applicable Game cartridges are removable media and their ROM capacity varies by title; no cartridge capacity is part of the base console. | not plotted | — |
| Super Nintendo Entertainment System | August 1991 | not applicable Nintendo's specification table gives "Cart size: 2 Mbit - 48 Mbit", which is the range the format spanned and not the capacity of a cartridge. | not plotted | — |
| Game Boy Advance | March 2001 | not applicable Game cartridges are removable media and their ROM capacity varies by title; no cartridge capacity is part of the base console. | not plotted | — |
| Nintendo DS | November 2004 | not applicable Game cartridges are removable media and their ROM capacity varies by title; no cartridge capacity is part of the base console. | not plotted | — |
Why this chart holds one group only
Every point on a chart is implicitly compared with every other point on it. This chart uses one comparability group: one metric, one device scope, one method . There is no chart of all clock frequencies over time because they are not one quantity.
Points use the release date of the machine a figure belongs to, including figures recorded against a part. A release date applies only to a machine that shipped. What this metric measures.