The Past and Future of the Hard Drive 223
Snags writes "Brian Hayes of American Scientist has written a nice little historical review of hard drive technology, from the first hard drive (nice pic) made by IBM in 1956 to what may be available in 10-15 years. He muses on how to fill up a 120 TB hard drive with text, photos, audio, and video (60,000 hours of DVD's). Kind of ironic that this came in my mailbox today considering IBM's announcement."
120TB?! It's not enough already (Score:5, Funny)
Let's see - if the history of the internet serves as an apt model - 120TB drives probably won't meet consumer demands for long.
First harddrives will start to fill up with fully-imersive holo-pr0n, followed quickly, due to adaptive marketing trends by fully-imersive unsolicitted holo-spam.
There... that solves that ol' capacity problem quite nicely then.
:)
autopr0n (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What will be on it in 10 -15 years (I hope) (Score:5, Funny)
Mmmm.... future pr0n.