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Mass Storage Leaves Microchips in the Dust
Roland Piquepaille writes "This article from Wired Magazine looks at storage with a new angle. 'Right now I am sitting in front of a whirring 60-gigabyte hard disk that cost less than $100. Do the math: If back then 10 megabytes cost $1,000, then 60 gigabytes would have cost x, where x = $6,000,000 and "back then" = 18 years ago. I'm sitting in front of $6,000,000 worth of mass storage, measured at mid-1980s prices. We have Moore's law for microprocessors. But who's coined a law for hard disks? In mass storage we have seen a 60,000-fold fall in price -- more than a dozen times the force of Moore's law.' DeLong also looks at a non-distant future when a $100 mass storage device will hold a full terabyte. He also thinks that with disk space becoming cheaper and cheaper, we'll be tempted to archive everything about ourselves, including pictures and videos. This is in fact the goal of the Gordon's Bell project, MyLifeBits. You can learn more about the MyLifeBits project by reading this NewsFactor Network article. Check this column for more details."
I don't want to see Gordon Bell's "lifebits"
--"The perfect example of the man of action is the suicide." - William Carlos Williams
but wait until the RIAA starts charging in advance for piracy. They can do $15 for an album, or charge $15000 per song ammounting to $1,485,000 for a single recordable disc (99 possible tracks).
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Record everything. Once your life is half over you need to cue up the recording and start watching what happened in the first half of your life. Then when that is over you drop dead.
Dude, seriously, what the fuck are you talking about? Process it all? Your cpu doesn't "process it all" now. If talks with what it needs do. I'm also pretty damn confused as to what you mean by negative integers? Hopefully that was some weak attempt at a buffer-overflow joke or a stack dump or something because the logical part of my brain thinks you meant you say "I will have so many mp3's that the number system itself will reset" and then I would be forced to clown on you.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
It will be a 3gig version of IIS, .Net, or whatever. The extra 2.9gigs are bundled data so you can buffer overrun yourself.
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
Look at the iPod... it's been out for 27 months and its capacity is up to 30GB from 5GB, or 6x. That is, on average, a doubling in size every 9 months!
:) Or if you're really insistent on the 9 months part, you could say it has increased by 81.7% every 9 months.
Please step away from the crack pipe. 2^(27/9) = 8. However, the storage capacity has only grown 6x. Perhaps you meant to say 2^(27/10.45) = 6. I.e. doubing in size every 10.5 months?
Moores Law for Microchips
(doubles every 18 mnths)
Porns Law For Storage?
Nope. A fragmented disk is what you get when you chuck your hard drive against a brick wall.
SQUEAK, the Death of Rats explained.