How Data Storage Has Grown In the Past 60 Years 100
Lucas123 writes "Imagine that in 1952, an IBM RAMAC 350 disk drive would have been able to hold only one .MP3 song. Today, a 4TB 3.5-in desktop drive (soon to be 5TB) can hold 760,000 songs. As much data as the digital age creates (2.16 Zettabytes and growing), data storage technology has always found a way to keep up. It is the fastest growing semiconductor technology there is. Consider a microSD card that in 2005 could store 128MB of capacity. Last month, SanDisk launched a 128GB microSD card — 1,000 times the storage in under a decade. While planar NAND flash is running up against a capacity wall, technology such as 3D NAND and Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) hold the promise of quadrupling of solid state capacity. Here are some photos of what was and what is in data storage."
Re:How long id a song (Score:0, Funny)
At least he didn't use that asinine "Mebibyte" crap that was going around awhile back.
Bitches, no, it's a megabyte. Mebi? Mebi I'm going to punch you in the face for coming up with something so stupid sounding, you goddamned whore of Western Digital.
Sorry. I'm still infuriated by lame-arse hard drive manufacturers blatantly lying about capacity.
Re:Just in the last 16 years... (Score:4, Funny)
Wow -- your last post said "mid to late 80s" and now it could have been up to 1996. That's more than a decade, and you can't be more accurate about when you bought what you said was your first hard drive?
Obviously, he calculated it on the Pentium box he put the disk into.