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ZERO
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 Posted: 05 Jan 2010 01:05:33 pm Post subject:
visualizing the petabyte age
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i came across some pretty cool images which help visualize when data is eventually measured in petabytes. crazy stuff, yeah? i don't currently own or use a machine that has a HD capacity greater than 1 TB, but that kind of capacity is getting cheaper all the time.
as an example, i looked up THE BIGGEST INTERNAL HD i could find on newegg: 2TB - and it's only 199.99. i imagine by the end of this year it will be down to 149.99 or so, maybe even lower. i have a 500gb external that i have a hard time imagining being able to fill. terabytes and petabytes just seem overwhelming.
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PERverSIAN
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so basically, if/when it does come out, there will never be a need to increase your capacity...unless you have more data than the entirety of mankinds existence in all languages. 
cool stuff tho
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ZERO
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| Posted: 05 Jan 2010 04:43:22 pm Post subject:
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| PERverSIAN wrote: | so basically, if/when it does come out, there will never be a need to increase your capacity...unless you have more data than the entirety of mankinds existence in all languages.
cool stuff tho |
looks that way. they're a few steps away from making it possible to download the whole internet. 
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Blutarsky
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remember when 20meg hard drive was considered MASSIVE?
or when computers didn't even have hard drives?
pssh... petabytes 
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ZERO
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| Posted: 07 Jan 2010 12:26:41 pm Post subject:
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remember when 20meg hard drive was considered MASSIVE?
or when computers didn't even have hard drives?
pssh... petabytes |
oh yeah, i remember. i remember in jr high taking computer classes where we were learning beginning 'basic' programming and we each had our own floppy disks that had all our assignments and what not on them. of course that was when we were rocking the apple II, awww yeah!
another fond memory was when we got our first computer at home. my dad brought home a used desktop from work, i don't even remember what brand it was, probably an ibm, but the floppy disks it ran off of were huge. i probably could have put in one of my LP records in to the thing. 
ah the good ol' days.
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WK
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crazy. heres a vid thats sim in scope to the massive amount of data and information we generate. this will blow your mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
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CloakedKilla
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| Posted: 30 Jan 2010 05:03:08 pm Post subject:
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remember when 20meg hard drive was considered MASSIVE?
or when computers didn't even have hard drives?
pssh... petabytes |
I remember when I was like 10 and was shopping for a new hard drive with my Mom. I was trying to tell her how the 700MB hard drive was WAY MORE than she would ever need.
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ZERO
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| CloakedKilla wrote: | | Blutarsky wrote: |
remember when 20meg hard drive was considered MASSIVE?
or when computers didn't even have hard drives?
pssh... petabytes |
I remember when I was like 10 and was shopping for a new hard drive with my Mom. I was trying to tell her how the 700MB hard drive was WAY MORE than she would ever need. |
lol. 700mb. ahh the good old days. i thought the same thing too. surely there's no way we'll ever fill that.
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