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February 19, 2006
Is that a petabyte in your pocket or are you just...ah forget it
Remember when 1 megabyte was an insanely huge file size? Now 250 gigabyte drives are the norm. You can carry a gigabyte in your pocket. Now they've come up with a possible design for hard drives that are in the petabyte range. A Pb is 1024 Tb (terabytes), which is 1 048 576 Gb. Basically about a quadrillion bytes. Makes me wonder what kind of consumer, or business, for that matter, could use a petabyte. This is almost unimaginably huge. I'd rather have the ability to multitask in Windows, to move files around different logical drives or around a LAN as easily as I can within a logical drive. Or be able to up/download file to servers much faster.
Posted by JonasParker at February 19, 2006 9:16 AM
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You just know that, in 5 years, a 1-petrabyte computer will be considered obsolete. Heck, I'm freaking that I've already used 20 gig on my 50 gig computer, and I've already had it for two years.
Posted by: Michel at February 20, 2006 10:59 AM
Kind of makes me think of the description of the universe in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. It's huge, _unbelievely_ huge.
Posted by: edemay at February 20, 2006 11:06 AM
Lol ... when I started playing with computers, a file bigger than 50 sectors was huge on Apple II (Dos 3.3 fyi). I had a game that took 140 sectors. 1 sector = 256 bytes... so that's 35K for today. *sigh* memories.
Posted by: Michel Donais at February 20, 2006 12:29 PM
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