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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."
Magnetic storage has gotten cheaper?
You don't say.
But recordable CD drives are still tens of thousands of dollars, right?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
...something something... what I wouldn't give for an archive of a Cowboy Neal webcam ...seomthing something...
Don't tell me let me guess, Neo brings her back to life. Am I right? Am I?
What's the point of documenting every single little piece of your life? Most peoples lives are boring.
Just look at all the bloggers. Do they think anybody actually read what they write? Or that anybody even care at all? Do anybody really care what I have to say in this post?
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
I have no idea for sure(but like speculating) they leave you hanging at the end, but after the credits roll, there is a 3 min trailer for revolutions, and I would guess that Trinity features in the trailer. I've heard several people complain about the trailer at the end.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.