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The Past and Future of the Hard Drive

Posted by chrisd on from the 120-tb-and-only-a-bernoulli-for-backup dept.

Snags writes "Brian Hayes of American Scientist has written a nice little historical review of hard drive technology, from the first hard drive (nice pic) made by IBM in 1956 to what may be available in 10-15 years. He muses on how to fill up a 120 TB hard drive with text, photos, audio, and video (60,000 hours of DVD's). Kind of ironic that this came in my mailbox today considering IBM's announcement."

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  1. Re:More space.. by dimator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And no, burning stuff to a single CD and wiping it so you can play back your MP3s isn't a backup - you've just made the natural disaster issue portable.

    It would truly be a disaster if my vast archive of Celine Dione mp3's got damaged...

    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"