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    10 Fun Facts About Storage

    [url=http://gigaom.com/2007/03/08/10-fun-facts-about-storage/]GigaOM


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    age

    - Software grows to fill the available space.

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    [QUOTE]The magnetic HDD is 50 years old (#). In 1956 IBM introduced 305 RAMAC (random access method of accounting and control), which is like the great-great-great grandfather of today

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    Re: 10 Fun Facts About Storage

    An Exabyte is a million terabytes

    what comes after exabyte?


    Exterabyte ftw?

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    Meh.... Data keeps getting larger while drive size has seem to stop growing much. I need more HDD's as I'm already out of space with my 250gb storage. :cry:

    Just imagine what drives will be like in 10 years. Fuck GB we'll have TB drives (hopefully).

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    Re: 10 Fun Facts About Storage

    Megabyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    It tells you everything there about space ^^ - well what comes after exabyte

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    Quote Originally Posted by NoPeace View Post
    Meh.... Data keeps getting larger while drive size has seem to stop growing much. I need more HDD's as I'm already out of space with my 250gb storage. :cry:

    Just imagine what drives will be like in 10 years. Fuck GB we'll have TB drives (hopefully).

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    Hitachi already announced affordable 1TB drives :p

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    What they are currently trrying to push for is the 1 TB platter.. when that is accomplished, make way for the multi Terabyte drives and insane storage..


    Flash drivers are also comign in soon.. but those arent really considered 'stroage'.. more of a means of 'quick access' for programs already loaded into it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sardaukar View Post
    What they are currently trrying to push for is the 1 TB platter.. when that is accomplished, make way for the multi Terabyte drives and insane storage..


    Flash drivers are also comign in soon.. but those arent really considered 'stroage'.. more of a means of 'quick access' for programs already loaded into it.
    So you are saying the new solid state drives are not storage? Even when it's 128GB and used as a primary drive. =P

    And yes. It will be amazing to see 1TB platters. But then again... Who would really use it all up? =P

    That's a shit load of music and movies for the average person. =P

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    I cant wait for solid state drives to take off, load times will be similar to that of RAM, which means windows boot times in a few seconds, games will load faster, everything will be quicker to access

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    btw anyone notice how long it will take to do a clean reformat on ur harddrive... we gonna need new ways to reformat harddrives after 1TB become common

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    Quote Originally Posted by deadly2003 View Post
    btw anyone notice how long it will take to do a clean reformat on ur harddrive... we gonna need new ways to reformat harddrives after 1TB become common
    Takes like.. 5 sec for my 250gb? Don't see your problem.

    About RAM drives the point is to have only OS and apps installed on it and storage someplace else since you don't need 0,1ms to watch a movie XD And there are already those out with SATA interface that you put in normal DDRs in as many as you like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by linklink88 View Post
    Takes like.. 5 sec for my 250gb? Don't see your problem.
    Don't do a quick formate. Do a full one where it goes though and check each sector to see if it is good or not.

    A 250gb one will take about a half hour. =P

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    I can tell you if something is wrong you'll notice it anyway :P

    format c: /q <-- Is the shit :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by NoPeace View Post
    Meh.... Data keeps getting larger while drive size has seem to stop growing much. I need more HDD's as I'm already out of space with my 250gb storage. :cry:

    Just imagine what drives will be like in 10 years. Fuck GB we'll have TB drives (hopefully).

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    Bleh yottabyte more like it. TB drives will be here next year and they will be more than affordable, think about it. 40 gb a while back cost alot. Now 500gb is nothing to what they cost.



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