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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. 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?

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

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

  3. 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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