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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."
Put em in your mouth
Slow down cowboy! You'll never get first post that way.
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*Warning* spoiler in subject
Bloat will kill the increase in storage available - one way or the other. It'll be a 3gig version of word, or windows movie maker that will only save in raw, non-compressed video. Anything to drive the market. We've seen it with processor speeds, if HD prices keep dropping I'm sure well see it with storage as well.
Come on, is XP is SO far ahead of NT 4 that it requires 4x the ram? Of course not. But what MS reccomends, PC manufacturers will have to yield to.
well, duh. But HDD's have moving parts and are not very reliable. They are *slow* in comparison. They have seek times. They sucks tons of current.
Slashdot is going fucking downhill. Look at the 'you can use the parallel port to control 8 devices' story. ding ding ding! you can use an I/O port for I/O. it's the kind of thing most EE's do twhen they are twelve.
slashdot = joke of the industry
i too have gained perspective from the pictures of your father shoving his cock in your ass you fucking faggot. how's your sister's pussy? still sore from my lit cigar?
Yes, thank you for pointing out what I've -already pointed out-. You're certainly wearing the clever pants today, aren't you?