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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:120 TB enough? by PsychoElf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My 100mb filled up terribly quick when C&C came out, then my 1.6gb filled up with mp3s, then my 10gb filled up with mp3's and games, then my 20gb with mp3s, games, and the discovery of divx, now my 80gb is filled with divx, mp3, games, books, ripped dvds....somehow, i doubt we will ever have enough space