I think its a bit misleading. Firstly, it does not explain the quality loss. The solid state data deals with quality loss by creating duplicate data cells. So if some go bad or are simply wrong their are others that are right. An atom moves. So there must be several duplicate atoms that can handle the loss of integrity. Second, 100,000 to one is not that far. We have reduced things a great deal in the past 30 years. Remember the size of a 10 megabyte hard drive. Now you can have 4 terabytes in half the size for half the money. That’s a 8,000,000 difference.
Data storage size is just one of the issues that slows down computing. Moving it, searching it, updating it, and manipulating it are more limiting to us.
Sure would reduce some latency issues with cloud computing!
My first CADD system (b4 that I drew on paper w/ pencils) was a VAX 11-730, later a VAX 11-780 (it may have been a 785 which was a slightly better model). The 780 was the size of a large side-by-side refrigerator and required a cold room and 220 volt power.
Internally, it had an 80mb operating drive and a 160mb storage drive. External were two 300mb disk drives, each the size of a dishwasher, also requiring 220 power & cooling.
Internal was also a “pizza oven” magnetic tape drive. It was called pizza oven b/c a front door opened downward and you inserted the 9-track mag tape reel (about 12” dia) as you would a pizza pie. Each mag tape held approx. 50mb of data. Every Friday I did weekly backups. Also did the dailies and we stored the monthly backups off-site.
Things were way different back then lol