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Hard Drive Memory Lane

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-school-like-the-old-school dept.

Chabil Ha' writes "CNET has gathered together some good old nostalgia from the photo vault. What high-tech product advances the fastest? It's probably the hard drive. The capacity doubles easily every two years and sometimes every year, faster even than the chip progress described by Moore's Law. The first drives took up storage closets. Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a phone."

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  1. Get Smart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    " Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a phone."

    That's nothing. Maxwell Smart could fit a phone in his shoe.

  2. Re:Stupid Comparisons by Erik+Fish · · Score: 4, Funny

    Totally useless. Why don't they put it in sensible terms everyone can understand: How many Libraries of Congress is it?

  3. Simple: by atrader42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    At that time, oil was going for $4.84 a megabyte.

    1. Re:Simple: by Tordek · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, no... more like 5,659420289855072463768115942029 Dollars per... megabyte.

      But yes, your mathematically inadequate post did perform its appointed task in causing in my emotion sensor a humorous response.

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    2. Re:Simple: by trackguy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Er.... At $7.81 per Mb I make it $1.9m (1.1m GBP) for a 80Gb HD at 2006 prices (based on 5% annual inflation for 34 years), although this doesn't include the building to keep it in and the small power station needed to power it (and the aircon).

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    3. Re:Simple: by skogula · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, but how many Megs per gallon does your car get now?

  4. 1000x every 10 years by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 4, Funny

    Drives increase about 1000 times in 10 years, for the same rough price, not counting inflation. For the price of a 500 gigabyte drive today, you'll be able to get a 500 terabyte drive in 2016. 10 years ago, you were buying 500 megabyte drives.

    It still won't be enough to store all your holographic porn.

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  5. the old school by rilister · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The first drives took up storage closets. Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a phone."

    ahh. well.... if you're *really* old school, you remember when a mobile phone was virtually the size of a storage closet.

    (heck. That wasn't even that long ago, come to think of it....)

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    1. Re:the old school by Mathiasdm · · Score: 2, Funny

      Pheh, that's nothing!

      Back in my days, we had Zippo lighters the size of storage closets, and matches were heavy as bricks!

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  6. Hard Drive Memory Lane by Aceticon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like a new technology to improve hard drive performance.

    Sata2 - Memory Lane mode

  7. Moore's Law by kidcharles · · Score: 2, Funny

    I swear if I hear someone invoke Moore's Law one more time I'll shoot myself in the head. I study electrical engineering and half our seminars start with someone mentioning or explaining in detail, Moore's Law. Always with the damn chart too.

    "Memory becomes more dense as time progresses, it's Moore's Law!"
    "Wasn't Moore a genius to roughly predict the pace of the increasing density of memory? Wasn't he?"
    "Have you heard about Moore's Law? It predicts the pace of memory density increase."

    Ahhhhh!

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