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Fletch XXX · 04-02-2003, 02:33 PM

'Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be generated in such quantities that in three years the Storage Tank-based grid will have to manage and process one petabyte (a million gigabytes) of information, said Jai Menon, an IBM Fellow and the co-director of the IBM Storage Systems Institute. That's the equivalent of a million-and-a-half CDs, or in old school terms, as much paper as can be packed into 20 million four-draw filing cabinets.'

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rdunn404 · 04-02-2003, 02:40 PM

*placing my pre-order for 100 PB hard drive now*

chupacabra · 04-02-2003, 02:42 PM

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*placing my pre-order for 100 PB hard drive now*

IDE, or SCSI..?

Gutterboy · 04-02-2003, 02:49 PM

Storage space seems to be increasing much faster than our ability to use it. I'm sure they'll be 1000 gig HD's on home computers within 5 years, but what the fuck do you use it for?

Even after I've installed every piece of development software I will ever need, ripped all my DVD movies to HD, plus my MP3 collection, I'm still using less than 30% of the (220GB) storage space on my PC.

fnet · 04-02-2003, 07:17 PM

reminds me of a domain i let expire: ...exahertz.com...

freeadultcontent · 04-02-2003, 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by Gutterboy
Storage space seems to be increasing much faster than our ability to use it. I'm sure they'll be 1000 gig HD's on home computers within 5 years, but what the fuck do you use it for?

Even after I've installed every piece of development software I will ever need, ripped all my DVD movies to HD, plus my MP3 collection, I'm still using less than 30% of the (220GB) storage space on my PC.

Just wait for the next version on widows. I am sure it will require at least 100 gigs. Fucking programs seem to be purportional to HD space.

I remember running a massive picture section download 50 line BBS on 60 megs, with the bbs software, windows, and crap loads of files. Most anything could be stuffed on a floppy, hell odds were you could stuff 20 or 30 programs per floppy... Now see whats happened. Extra space = bad wastefull coding.

rdunn404 · 04-02-2003, 08:04 PM

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Originally posted by freeadultcontent

Just wait for the next version on widows. I am sure it will require at least 100 gigs. Fucking programs seem to be purportional to HD space.

I remember running a massive picture section download 50 line BBS on 60 megs, with the bbs software, windows, and crap loads of files. Most anything could be stuffed on a floppy, hell odds were you could stuff 20 or 30 programs per floppy... Now see whats happened. Extra space = bad wastefull coding.

Exactly, it happend with computer programs and video games. Especially once the CD-ROM format was introduced. Remember when operating systems, word processing programs and many games came on one floppy and some great video games could fit on a cartridge? The programmers HAD to make it fit. With cheap storage now, they don't have to worry about efficiency as much so sloppy programming is more excusable.

Wilbo · 04-02-2003, 08:16 PM

Damn, I didn't even know you could get a 220 gig hd yet.

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Gutterboy So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Dis Posts: 4,751	Storage space seems to be increasing much faster than our ability to use it. I'm sure they'll be 1000 gig HD's on home computers within 5 years, but what the fuck do you use it for? Even after I've installed every piece of development software I will ever need, ripped all my DVD movies to HD, plus my MP3 collection, I'm still using less than 30% of the (220GB) storage space on my PC.

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