Staples Advertises 6400 Gig Hard Drive; Singularity Quickly approaching.
Or, you know, maybe it's just a typo. I'd ready your EMP weaponry to be safe.
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Oh noes, someone made a typo.
Call the press
Shouldn't it be 6.4 TB not 6400 GB??
Why golly gee, you could store the whole internets.
Folks,that's only 6.4 TB of disk. Considering the fact that I saw a 1.5 TB drive on sale at Best Buy over the weekend for $169.00 this is not far off in the future as you think.
I'd say that you will only need to wait about 2 years for this to become a reality.
@failurate: According to the Google CEO, you could store the entire internet (estimated at 5 Exabytes, or 5 million terabytes) using a modest 780,000 of these.
Or to take a more humble approach, backup all of Google using 32 or them.
@Front_Towards_Enemy: Following Moore's Law of storage capacity doubling every year or two, that seems spot on.
Current standard: 1.5-2TB
2009 standard: 3-4TB
2010 standard: 6-8TB
An 8TB standard (or even 6TB) in 2010 seems unlikely, but who knows what leaps SSD technology will make in that time.
Is this the external storage from the future that tries to kill you or tries to help you?
Damn! I'm in the market for an external HDD, and this is just the right ammount of memory I needed, at the right price! >_<
I am reminded of a salesman a long time ago that was trying to sell my father a PC.
"100mb hard drive!!! More than you will EVER need!"
@cynical_bastard: And he was RIGHT! All that Windowz and Mac stuff you people use is just HD filler, a conspiracy between Seagate and George Bush Sr. Real pros use DOS 6.22!
Wow -- that could hold all the pr0n on the Internet!
@upsidedownpaddle: It's the one that becomes self aware and sends an unstoppable killing machine back in time to stop this ad from being printed.
Wait, what?
@NefariousNewt: a highly scientific study I've conducted for the past 10 years leads me to believe that you are incorrect.
Just imagine being able to go back in time 20-some years ago and show a computer programmer a 16Gb SD card, their mind would shrivel up and they'd believe it if you told them you were "Kotaku the Magnificent, from Planet Xenna".
In the early 1980s, what was the average hd like? 7x4x4 inches or so, weighing a couple of pounds and having a capacity of 5Mb (if that). For 16Gb storage capcity, you'd need 320 of the suckers, taking up the space of roughly a large room, costing in the neighborhood of half a million dollars, probably consuming a shit-ton of electricity (requiring additional computers and hardware to operate, btw) and having the performance of a Model T Ford. Now whip that 16Gb SD card out of your pocket and think "$49". Proceed to marvel.
Back in 91 I had 2 750mb hard drives (670mbs formatted)when I changed them out many years later. I had always said I could cook a egg on them. I was able to cook not only eggs but the bacon also. Those 2 babies use to heat up my room. Great in the winter bad for the summer.
@mariospants: On the same note, I often think about liquidating all my assets, taking every penny I have and traveling back to the year 1800 and buying all the slaves and then when they get all excited that a black dude bought them and thinking they would be free I'd open the largest plantation known to man, call it Wormabama and start my own religion. Church of Wormland?
But much to my dispair, I'm pretty sure that would completly fuck the future over and further more I'm sure there's some ironic rule that says that Negros cant own N*gg*rs (their word, not mine, then again it's our word now.../headsplode)
And btw, yes, I know 2008 currency would be no good in 1800, gold baby, deblumes preferably
Not long ago, a Terrabyte HD (a Seagate, 7200rpm, 32Mb buffer, usb 2.0) was priced at $200 @ Fry's Electronics.
I bought mine on sale for $150.
Less than two months later, they were down to $120.
In fact, right now, they have a Seagate 1.5Tb internal drive (also 7200rpm w/ 32Mb buffer), on sale for $130.
@Jakuub: After reviewing Jakuub's collected study data, I concur. You would need far more than this.
@mariospants: I used to have some old 456 Mb DEC drives from the late '80s. They weighed about 40 pounds each. Also had some awesome 200 Mb removable disk packs...ahhhh, the old days.
@EyeintheLAsky: TigerDirect has a 1Tb internal drive (not sure the RPM/buffer specs) for $79. Just saw the email about it this morning.
@AlteredBeast: How about "WESCUE MY DAUGHTER!" That guy always sounded like he had a speech impediment.
@mariospants: 1979 - my dad brought home one of these:
and made it into our first home computer.
i am soooo not kidding! it took ascii cassettes and we had a copy of adventure and it was the coolest thing anyone in the neighborhood had ever seen and everyone was amazed that you could get that much computing power in something smaller than a room.
@mariospants: That 10mb CMS in the garage ... about 8 x 5.5 x 4.5. IIRC, 130ms seek access time, 500k maximum transfer rate through the MFM interface. Not sure if it's still working ...
OTOH, the 80mb ST4096 in the garage is still working. Was out of a server that ran for 8-1/2 years practically nonstop, well beyond its MTBF. I recall this one went for about $750 wholesale back in '88.
@Wormfather is Wormfather: watch out which state you go to with that time machine. south carolina had some pretty nasty laws about re-enslavment:
[www.slaveryinamerica.org]
"The freeing of enslaved persons--manumission--was not regulated by statute in South Carolina until 1712, when the colonial legislature decreed that slaveholders or the colonial governor or provincial council could manumit enslaved persons for good cause. Later legislation stated that manumitted blacks had to leave the colony. If the freed person failed to leave South Carolina within six months, he or she would be re-enslaved and sold at public auction ...... Other statutes, such as one passed in1822, prohibited free blacks from entering the state."
@catastrophegirl: See, well fuck and I'm pretty sure that entering NC, Tenn and GA would result in re-enslavement making you a dead duck no matter what.
@Wormfather is Wormfather: BTW, I had no intention of freeing the slaves. I know it sucks to say, esspecially as a black person but...yes, slavery is wrong but if it's legal and you can afford it, pft, that'd be the way to go. Esspecially if you're narcassistic enough to belive that they're enjoying it and you're doing them a favor.
@Wormfather is Wormfather: i got the impression from your time travel fantasy description that you didn't have any intention of freeing them. i was just pointing out that even entering the state of SC in the wrong year would keep you from even entering the state and if you were caught there, whether you could own slaves or not would be the least of your worries.
your best bet for staying free yourself in this little time trip might be new york but then you'd have to teach them to read the bible and provide for their basic human needs. and who wants to bother with all that?
Remember in that novel Neuromancer, which came out in the early 80s, the protagonist was on the run with "4 megs of hot ram." I remember then thinking what an impressive amount of memory that was.
@Front_Towards_Enemy: @blackmage439: Fears of the failure of Moore's Law to hold up in the very near future double in volume and shrillness every two years or so.
Actually, processors are starting to "fail to proceed" and have branched out into multicores.
@blackmage439: @blackmage439: While capacity has been increasing dramatically, we're hitting another technological wall. The limitations of 32-bit Windows XP/Vista/7 will cause an issue for the few people running Windows...but, that's only like 10 or 12 people... ;-)
@Wormfather is Wormfather: Seriously? Cause I can easily let myself believe they like working in a field more than starving to death...
@mariospants
paid waaay to much, i got my 16gig thumbdrive for 15bucks on woot a while back
Hard drives. How about the tape drive on that vic 20. Awe snafu I miss you.
I'm guessing it's this one, someones got a sticky 0 key.
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