Computers - growth in drives but not memory

Every year computers have more harddisk space but not that much more
memory. I just saw an ad for a computer with 160G drive but 512M
memory. Compared with three years ago, that drive is way bigger but
the memory is about the same.

Why is the disk size growing more than memory?

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