Posted on 11/19/2012 7:38:08 AM PST by Red Badger
If you're anything like me, you'll have files 10 times bigger than that now.
A friend of mine has an MP3 player with a small HDD inside......
Great, now you can lose 5 times more stuff when the drive tanks!
RAID is one of the “good” four-letter words.
Darn, I guess that makes me a dinosaur. I seem to recall my first HDD was a Seagate 10 Mb, at least I think it was a Seagate, that cost me somewhere about $800 and the size was huge comparatively speaking and put off a bit of heat. And I thought I was flying along with my 300 baud acoustic modem, my Apple PC 4 bit machine. The 1200/2400 baud fax modems were just coming out. Seems only yesterday.
Wow, that’s a lot of pr0n.
Unless you're a bug.
People have been predicting “the end of hard disk drives in 3 years”...for the last 15 years. They always come up with something to increase the bit density. It’s going to be a while before semiconductor memory hits the cost per bit shown in this article.
Spinning disk might go the way of the dodo but not for a while yet, it seems. The cost per byte is too great for SSDs to make them commercially viable for long-term storage. Fact remains, if you want something that’ll last for a long time and store your data longer than removable media, you want a spinning disk drive.
For performance at this point, you can’t go wrong with SSD.
Darn, I guess that makes me a dinosaur. I seem to recall my first HDD was a Seagate 10 Mb
I remember those. We bought quite a few to sell with our applications - healthcare financial planning (really Medicare reimbursement planning) systems. It was still cheaper, faster, and more reliable than the IBM mainframe systems it replaced. More dollars in our pockets, heheh.
Those were the days and I have many fond memories of the early days. After holding out for a few more years I eventually transitioned to the 286 as well. As much as I loved my Mac at the time there was little real software being written for it and I needed more than what Apple was offering in those early days.
The first hard drive I worked with held 32K words of 12 bits each, so that would be 48 KBytes. It was head-per-track, so it didn’t have any moving arm.
I think it cost us about $6000.
I also recall a business partner spending good money to upgrade our CMP machines from 48k of RAM to 64k of RAM.
Who in the world could possibly use 64k of RAM?
One issue with SSD is that even if the entire chip-manufacturing capacity of the entire world were dedicated to SSD, it would take a long time to reach the total storage capacity output of a week’s worth of spinning-rust disks.
Science in the service of porn, what could be better?
So someone at MIT doesn't know the difference between bits and bytes?
On a personal computer I can't see any need for more than 300GB hard drive. Unless you are storing movies and home videos. BlueRay movies can eat up 25GB so I hear
If you are storing movies they should be on an external hard drive anyway. An external hard drive should last a lot longer than one in a computer
Reporters aren’t good at math........That’s why they are reporters.......
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