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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by lisper on Thursday August 31, 2017 @06:17PM (#15144425)
My first day working at Google back in 2000 they had just inked an exclusive deal with a hard drive manufacturer for their brand new high-capacity 40 GB drives. They had a 4U rack stuffed full of 25 of them, and everyone was standing around oohing and ahing and saying, "Wow, that's a TERABYTE!"

Now the same storage is the size of a thimble.

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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by tapirl on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:16PM (#15145639)
I remember I bought a 4.7GB Seagate hard drive, for $250, at 1997.
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by King-Aaron on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:24PM (#15145661)
I remember my Dad buying a 20MB drive in 1993 for around double that..
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by mchahn on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:31AM (#15146129)
I started a company, Corvus Systems, that sold 5 MByte hard disk drives for $4000. We sold a zillion.

Of course the competition was 74 KByte floppies at the time.

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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by EugeneAZ on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:25AM (#15146334)
At the time I copied games for ZX-80 on a tape recorder. One 90 min cassette had 260KB of storage. And now IBM make a 330TB one.
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by yread on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:03AM (#15147251)
Back in my day we only had stone tablets which had space for just one dot. A whopping 1 bit of storage! /s
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by mc32 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:32PM (#15145224)
That reminds me of the racks of 18GB Seagate drives Terraserver used for their maps storage. It was a nice double entendre of terra earth and tera 10^12
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by 52-6F-62 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:08PM (#15144768)
Are there archived photos from those days? I think that would be interesting to see
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by dopeboy on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:16PM (#15144819)
If you get a chance to go to the Google visitor office in Mountain View, they have old racks on display.
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by schoen on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:22PM (#15144861)
See also

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/...

which apparently has been moved out of the basement of Gates Hall but is still on display elsewhere at Stanford.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/...

(Note that this is from 1996, so it's apparently 40 GB rather than 1 TB.)

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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by zzazzdsa on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:08PM (#15145372)
Yep, that server is indeed still at Stanford. It is now in the basement of the Huang building in the engineering quad.
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by 52-6F-62 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:42PM (#15145503)
Oh that's awesome, thanks! History is an indulgence for me these days, but I think it serves me as well.
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by 52-6F-62 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:43PM (#15145507)
Didn't know they had one. I'm a little far away, but we may visit my girlfriend's family there around Christmas, so it's on the list if I can make it. Thanks!
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Re:SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card by zeep on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:09PM (#15145605)
And Google won't let you use them in their devices... because the cloud...
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