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08-05-2009, 11:17 AM #1
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Storage blows my mind
so when I was born Kilobytes cost hundreds of dollars and a megabyte was out of this world. when I was in elementary school hard drives had hit capacities of dozens of megabytes. My first PC had 2 gigabytes. By the year 2000 I had 20+ gigs of storage. my first laptop had 60GB's my next desktop had 500. my second laptop has 640GB's they sell 1.5 terabyte hard drives today.... so I was wondering what the future holds for storage.
First we see what digital storage is. Just a line of 1's and 0's known as bits. a single 1 or 0 is a bit.
8 bits is a byte
8,192 bits is a kilobyte
8,388,608 bits in a megabyte
8,589,934,592 bits in a gigabyte
8,796,093,022,208 bits in a terabyte
9,007,199,254,740,990 bits in a petabyte
9,223,372,036,854,780,000 bits in an exabyte
9,444,732,965,739,290,000,000 bits in a zettabyte
9,671,406,556,917,030,000,000,000 bits in a yottabyte
Just how much data is that yottabyte? if you had a device that had a transfer rate of 3,833,478,626,378,200 bits per second, it would take 80 years to transfer a yottabyte.
3,833,478,626,378,200 bits per second is equal to 446,276 TB per SECOND!!!
so how long till we are beyond yottabytes??? lolol
For comparison, the entire contents of the US Library of Congress is 10TB. so you need to be able to transfer 44,627.6 Libraries of Congress per second in order to fill a yottabyte in 80 years
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08-05-2009, 11:35 AM #2
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Yottabyte? I think someone had way too much time on their hands....
As a comparision: The Xmas card that has a musical greeting inside has more computing power than the computer that was on the Apollo spacecraft that took man to the moon.
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08-05-2009, 11:40 AM #3
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Navy Blue Metallic- 2000 T/A Firehawk M6
time? nah just put =(previous cell)*1024 into excel and drag it down as many levels as you want... mere seconds to make those numbers
wait that doesn't make much sense... like this
Cell A1 = (8)
cell A2 = (=A1*1024)
then drag away!!!
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08-05-2009, 11:47 AM #4
The other day my girlfriend was describing her new laptop to me over the phone.
She misspoke and said 4 megabytes of RAM.
I asked her if it was 1994.
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08-05-2009, 11:50 AM #5
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08-05-2009, 11:51 AM #6
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my first computer was an atari 1040 with one (or two?) megabyte ram, and 3.5'' floppy disc was the only other storage. no harddisc.
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08-05-2009, 12:36 PM #7
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08-05-2009, 12:49 PM #8
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08-05-2009, 01:30 PM #9
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I've been dealing with PC's since they came out with the original Apple II. No storage at all. Everything ran off of a 5" floppy.
And I've been dealing with some sort of computer since 1978....
To see what it's become today blows my mind.
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08-05-2009, 02:15 PM #10
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My first hard drive was 10 MB, 5.25 full height. It's spinning shook the whole damn table. Fortunately, the CPU was "turbo" and ran at a full 8 Mhz.
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08-05-2009, 02:19 PM #11
I remember having one back in the early/mid 80's maybe that dad brought home. The only things I could do with it was write spaghetti code and play the worm game.
I remember having pong before that.....late 70's maybe?
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