I just transferred 100G of music/audio data to my new hard drive

[Rabrrrrrr]

Taking iTunes fucking forever to rebuild the library. :7

And speaking of large amounts of data - I was at Best Buy yesterday, and see that they have now external USB drives of TWO FUCKING TERRABYTES.

And I think they were less than $200.

I remember, back in '97, buying for new, custom-designed, totally-state-of-the-art desktop computer, two - count 'em TWO! - hard drives, each of the whopping just-released 6GB size. And I think they were each like $350.

A month or two ago I bought an 8GB flash drive for $12.


Storage is so frakking cheap now.

Hell, I run a few yahoogroups (of which yahoo has 10 MILLION), and they just recently gave *each* yahoogroup 100G of storage space.

100G!

For each of 10M groups. That's 1000GM! Or 1x10E18 total bytes of storage (rounded down to 1000 bytes per K instead of 1024)

And people think that if they post something on the web, and delete it later, it's gone.

No, dude - it's stored in many places, and will be forever.

[Duer 157099]

1. I still have the hard drive from my very first computer

I think it's a whole 4MB or something

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I have no idea what any of that means.

I just got an external hard drive at the behest of NightWatcher. Thank God someone here speaks geek.

And, why haven't you visited my pic thread, freeper?

[Juche]

3. I paid $69 for a 640GB external HD

I think back in 2003 I paid $80 (with tons of discounts, it was originally over $100) for an 80GB internal HD.

On another note, in 2003 I also got a 128MB MP3 player that was on sale for $99, marked down from $129. I now have a refurbished 6GB player that does video and audio for $50.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. LOL! Yes, in 2003 I bought a 256MB mp3 player for just under $200!

Fucking thing isn't even supported any more, software-wise, for Vista.

Had to buy a 4GB $150 iPod Nano to replace it.

[Juche]

6. In 10 years people will laugh at paying $100 for a terabyte

"What the fuck? My watch has 15 TB of storage and I paid $20 for it"

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Indeed! "Hell, my car key has a 30TB long encryption key"

:rofl:

"I had to buy a new refrigerator - my old one only had 50TB of storage for its in-door TV screen"

[Juche]

8. The playstation 3 has the processing power of the world's fastest supercomputer in 1993

Roughly 100 GFlops for both the Fujitsu wind tunnel and the PS3.

What is comical is we use the extra processing power to make water and hair look more realistic. Some people use their PS3s for cancer research via folding@home, so that is good. In the future we will have exas and zettas worth of processing power and data storage.

What'll be funny is the processing power and data storage necessary to do meaningful computer simulations to solve malaria or invent drugs for HIV using today's technology will be used to make more realistic looking smurfs 20 years from now.

Take all the data storage and processing power of every computer involved in medical or scientific research on earth today and combine them (maybe 30 petaflops and a few hundred petabytes of data). A child's toy in 20 years will have more processing power and data storage ability, and it will use them to create graphics.

[pokerfan]

5. Storage is cheap but device speeds are still slow

Bring on SuperSpeed (4,800 Mbit/s)!

[DarkTirade]

9. I remember when we got our first computer... the harddrive was SO big that DOS couldn't support it.

We had to partition it into *gasp* 2 20 meg drives. That version of DOS couldn't handle 40 megs at once! :)