Re:Yottabyte: This Will Never Exist
by simonblack on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:22PM
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Never say 'never':
I can remember a time when a computer shop guy said to me "Hey! Look at this. It's a 500 megabyte hard drive, and it's only 2 grand. That's half a gigabyte, you know!"
Come to think of it, I remember how blown away I was when I first increased my 90 kilobyte floppy drive (5-inch single-side, single-density) to a 1.2 megabyte drive (8-inch, double-sided, double-density).
These days, I get twitchy when my backup drive gets lower than two or three hundred gigabytes of free space.
I can remember a time when a computer shop guy said to me "Hey! Look at this. It's a 500 megabyte hard drive, and it's only 2 grand. That's half a gigabyte, you know!"
Come to think of it, I remember how blown away I was when I first increased my 90 kilobyte floppy drive (5-inch single-side, single-density) to a 1.2 megabyte drive (8-inch, double-sided, double-density).
These days, I get twitchy when my backup drive gets lower than two or three hundred gigabytes of free space.
A lot of companies are producing many petabytes a day of logs and data.
It appears this "vandalism" was added back in August. It certainly caught my attention.