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Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive
Lucas123 writes "Seagate's first drive, shipped in 1979 was the ST506, which had a capacity of 5MB and cost a cool $1,500 — or $300 per megabyte. Today, a typical Seagate holds 1TB and cost just 1/5000th of a cent ($0.0002) per megabyte. Seagate, which claims to be the first company to ship a billion drives, says all those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs." Update: 04/23 14:56 GMT by CT : The quoted fraction is wrong. Someone complain to ComputerWorld. Update: 04/23 15:13 GMT by CT : TY. The site is corrected to say "just 1/50th of a cent ($0.0002) per megabyte." The universal equation is once again balanced.
> Seagate, which claims to be the first company to ship a billion drives, says all those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs
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Freedom is always best and only free culture allows the world to decide what storage solution is optimal. Windows and other binaries took up a considerable portion of every system I owned before I moved to free sotware eight years ago and that kind of waste is as intolerable as it was intentional. It comes from someone saying, "I own this and you can't make a copy." This guy has an interesting free culture angle that I thought of but did not express as well. Free software and culture offers economy that's only starting to be apparent.
There's a critical difference between access and access under your own control but the concept has played out in software repositories and my local media repositories. I don't need to have the entire distribution repository on my network when I know that a better version is available from people who have proved reliable. I don't need to duplicate my entire music and movie collection when I can stream it to myself with MythTV and other software. Still, large organizations would do well to have local repositories of both. GFS offers yet another option for local storage that blends computer and network storage.
Anyone posting on this thread should be aware that "willehill", "gnutoo" and "inTheLoo" are all the same person; sockpuppet accounts of twitter. Other sockpuppets I know of include "Erris", "Mactrope" and "westbake". I assume they're going to post here eventually with helpful things like "that's he truth".
The twitter monologues. Click on my homepage and be amazed.