Finally, a way to backup half of my pr0n collection.

[venk]

<--- Click Me

 

[Evadman]

Half? Wow, and I thought I was bad.

 

[everman]

100 gigs was obscene years ago, a million will be normal in due time. But the contents of your hard disk will always be obscene

 

[her209]

1000 terabytes = 1000000 gigabytes.

 

[Evadman]

12.8 million Gig on a square centimeter. Hmm. Currently we are at about 130 gb a square inch. That means a 2 platter drive of the current size could hold 2,969,600,000,000,000,000 bytes, or 2.9 exabytes. (giga, peta, exa) That could be a problem. In Star Trek (because trek is life) those little blue wafer chips for storing data supposedly held 512 terabyes.

We have a conundrum

 

[venk]

Hmmmmm 4 Replies and 81 views.

I think people expected free pr0n in this thread. :Q

 

[everman]

The article says Cubic Centimeter, not square centimeter. Or did they mean square? Wouldn't cubic refer to three-dimensional storage, like holographic? /confused

 

[QurazyQuisp]

The first hard drive ever made was large enough to hold my entire pr0n collection.

 

[Goosemaster]

hey..I used to got there


and no logner do

 

[Baked]

Meh, what's the point. You'll just look at it once.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Evadman
12.8 million Gig on a square centimeter. Hmm. Currently we are at about 130 gb a square inch. That means a 2 platter drive of the current size could hold 2,969,600,000,000,000,000 bytes, or 2.9 exabytes. (giga, peta, exa) That could be a problem. In Star Trek (because trek is life) those little blue wafer chips for storing data supposedly held 512 terabyes.

We have a conundrum

sony jsut got fvked up the arse....

netflix = netcubeHD in a few years

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Baked
Meh, what's the point. You'll just look at it once.

spoken like a true femenist:beer:

 

[Koing]

Won't be at least 10yrs before we start seeing a HD with 1PetaByte of storage.

100GB was not obscene a few years ago. A few being 2-3-5yrs. It was obscene ~ 10yrs ago. Even then I had a 1GB HD. It will be at least 10yrs before we have a single 1PetaByte drive!

Koing

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: venk
Hmmmmm 4 Replies and 81 views.

I think people expected free pr0n in this thread. :Q

I was expecting a pic of his hand. To hold half his porn in.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: Koing
Won't be at least 10yrs before we start seeing a HD with 1PetaByte of storage.

100GB was not obscene a few years ago. A few being 2-3-5yrs. It was obscene ~ 10yrs ago. Even then I had a 1GB HD. It will be at least 10yrs before we have a single 1PetaByte drive!

Koing

Assuming we still follow Moore's Law, and will for the next 10 years... we'll only be up to 192 terrabyte hard drives.

 

[ForumMaster]

you need 2 million gigabytes to store all your pr0n? god damn... get a life man. get out of the house every so often...

 

[notfred]

I never beleive articles written this poorly:

It has to do with the hydroxyl (OH) ions molecules found in water, which are capable of screening the charges.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: Koing
Won't be at least 10yrs before we start seeing a HD with 1PetaByte of storage.

100GB was not obscene a few years ago. A few being 2-3-5yrs. It was obscene ~ 10yrs ago. Even then I had a 1GB HD. It will be at least 10yrs before we have a single 1PetaByte drive!

Koing

At current growth rates of storage capacity, we're looking at 15-18 years before we see 1Petabyte ( 1000 terabyte) hard drives. This is simply extrapolating historical data on storage capacity expansion. We should hit an exabyte in around 25 yrs. But who knows what will happen technology wise.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: everman
At current growth rates of storage capacity, we're looking at 15-18 years before we see 1Petabyte ( 1000 terabyte) hard drives. This is simply extrapolating historical data on storage capacity expansion. We should hit an exabyte in around 25 yrs. But who knows what will happen technology wise.

in '88 the largest 'personal' drive you could get was 20 MB. Now, 18 years later, we are at 750 GB, which is 37,500 times larger. Using the same data, wouldn't we be 37,500 times larger than we have now, or 28,125,000 GB? (28 petabytes) in 18 years? Well, I guess 1 petabyte or 28 is close enough. the jump from 1 GB to 4, to 100 GB was what, a year?

Ok, I agree with ya after doing the math in this post

 

[venk]

Hard Drives have esentially been the same for the last two decades. Rotating Platters. All the changes have been evolutionary.

Ideas like this are REVOLUTIONARY and shouldn't be constrained to the same growth rates as platter drives.

 

[tfinch2]

Why do they say a million gigabytes, and not use the proper unit of measure? It's like saying something is a million decimeters long.

 

[venk]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Why do they say a million gigabytes, and not use the proper unit of measure? It's like saying something is a million decimeters long.

Because saying 12.8 Petabytes would mean nothing to people and make a pretty crappy headline.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: everman
At current growth rates of storage capacity, we're looking at 15-18 years before we see 1Petabyte ( 1000 terabyte) hard drives. This is simply extrapolating historical data on storage capacity expansion. We should hit an exabyte in around 25 yrs. But who knows what will happen technology wise.

in '88 the largest 'personal' drive you could get was 20 MB. Now, 18 years later, we are at 750 GB, which is 37,500 times larger. Using the same data, wouldn't we be 37,500 times larger than we have now, or 28,125,000 GB? (28 petabytes) in 18 years? Well, I guess 1 petabyte or 28 is close enough. the jump from 1 GB to 4, to 100 GB was what, a year?

Ok, I agree with ya after doing the math in this post

i think that viewpoint it rather shortsided....

perfecting the task of aligning magnetic strips on rotating disks using electric currents created by extending arms took some time, and now all that is left in that arena is platter density, and , only until recently, bit postitioning.

It would easy to calculate based on current technology but truthfully that is not the case.

For example, whose to say that the boost from goign to photonic processors won't mimic the jump in storage in the future....they already hav ethe priliminaries of this new technology figured out...

whose to say that their first "attempt" won't yeild 1 TB per unit?

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: venk
Hard Drives have esentially been the same for the last two decades. Rotating Platters. All the changes have been evolutionary. Ideas like this are REVOLUTIONARY and shouldn't be constrained to the same growth rates as platter drives.

Because it is not a rotating magnetic platter right? Oh wait, it is. So this is still evolutionary.

Sorry, it was required.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: everman
At current growth rates of storage capacity, we're looking at 15-18 years before we see 1Petabyte ( 1000 terabyte) hard drives. This is simply extrapolating historical data on storage capacity expansion. We should hit an exabyte in around 25 yrs. But who knows what will happen technology wise.

in '88 the largest 'personal' drive you could get was 20 MB. Now, 18 years later, we are at 750 GB, which is 37,500 times larger. Using the same data, wouldn't we be 37,500 times larger than we have now, or 28,125,000 GB? (28 petabytes) in 18 years? Well, I guess 1 petabyte or 28 is close enough. the jump from 1 GB to 4, to 100 GB was what, a year?

Ok, I agree with ya after doing the math in this post

i think that viewpoint it rather shortsided....

perfecting the task of aligning magnetic strips on rotating disks using electric currents created by extending arms took some time, and now all that is left in that arena is platter density, and , only until recently, bit postitioning.

It would easy to calculate based on current technology but truthfully that is not the case.

For example, whose to say that the boost from goign to photonic processors won't mimic the jump in storage in the future....they already hav ethe priliminaries of this new technology figured out...

whose to say that their first "attempt" won't yeild 1 TB per unit?

That's correct, hence my disclaimer. Unpredictable things WILL happen over 15-20 years technology-wise. "Maybe" a few people will see it comming, whatever does happen, but largely unpredictable. We could very well see one billion exabyte storage systems in 20 years, there's no way to say for sure...