Stu.H

That is a massive amount of storage to keep on your keyring.

Going back to my 1st hard drive, I paid £1 a megabyte and that was cheap (showing my age now). Also had a 2400bps modem!!! (around 250 BYTES per second download!) - You valued your downloads in the dial-up days! (anyone remember blue boxing )

256 GIGABYTE has been released for your keyring (or is about to)

Now 1000 GB is 1 Terabyte, 1000 Terabytes is a Petabyte, 1000 Petabytes is an Exabyte, 1000 Petabytes is a Zettabyte and 1000 Zettabytes is a Yottabyte.

Who wants a 1YB keyring memory stick LOL

But how long do people reckon till we move into the 1PB harddrives?

And will we need that kind of storage?

People say HD films, a bluray is 50gb ish for the whole disc, and super hd is supposed to be around 100gb a film, but even so no one will have a screen big enough to appreciate super hd...

Sorry, was just thinking out loud

Icurus

I once paid £160 for a 1.2 gig HDD and was chuffed I got it cheap!!

My first PC that I brought as 1 unit cost me £1200 and was a Packard Bell Multi Media Excecutive P75 with 8mb RAM and 850 MB HDD

Coldo

When i was at uni, only..4 years ago, i bought a 60gb external HD, cost me £140... was a nice sony one, but still... i seen one online the other week for £29.98 or some shit!!

I've got a 4gb USB stick and tbh, its enough for now, moving files between home/work/mates/customers etc...

My home PC HD is 'only' 420GB, + 60GB external + 11GB worth of USB sticks, just less than 500GB of HD space, not came close to filling it yet tbh. (No Blurays etc... stored...)

Sonic Boom

iTrader: (11)

I remember my first PC was an IBM 286 with 4MB of RAM, oh the speed!
Rich

Icurus

Just remembered the Voodoo2 SLi rig I brought, iirc they cost me about £500! I eventually sold them for £30 a few years back

Hobomassiv

Ive got 1820Gb unformatted in my main machine im posting on, and i dont think that is enough space at all.

Between me and a friend weve got a 4.5 Tb array/server thats full.

I think it will be a while before we get to 1Pb+ sizes, 2Tb drives are common now but its getting harder to write higher densities to magnetic media.

I hope , now larger (128Gb+) flash hard disks are coming into the market it drives the price of them down, and in turn improves the controller technology increasing their efficiency and lifespan.

If there was some new scientific discovery allowing denser magnetic disks or something like that then who knows.


I like the way PC technology imroves so rapidly, it keeps it interesting.

Anyone else into PC modding?

rik-rs

i remember paying 55 quid for a 1 meg ram upgrade for my amiga... yes thats 1 meg!!!!

DanRSturbo

My C:\ Drive is 250 gig SATA, my TV drive is 160 gig SATA, I have 2 x 160 gig IDE drives in here to for porn and music. I have a 500 gig iomega usb external drive for films and music videos, and the Playstation 3 hard drive got upgraded from 40 gig to 320 gig. Total is 1.5 TB and I have a couple of 1 gig flash drives.

Sonic Boom

iTrader: (11)

Ye I had two of them too, running two togther is SLi seriously old technology now adays.
Rich

JohnnyB

about 5 years ago I built raid array with 4 chages running 34 gig drives, fully populated. I though fuck me, now I work with EMC stuff and work on 100+ TB systems.

fez2i16v

thats some decent space ive only got 200gig i have a 40 gig for the c drive and 120 for my music and stuff i dont need much more

Smartdj.

iTrader: (2)

external hard drives are great for storing my music!! i use a 320gb hArd drive strictly for tunes and i swear by it i think i paid 65quid .
but i wouldnt trust a usb stick with millions of gb's because of the size eitherway tho its a big achivment

Stu.H

I remember the Voodoo 2 SLI .. lol .. how times change

and the adsl 64k lines where you could dial again and get 128k --- woohoo 15k/s

Markb_s1

you reckon?
Sli is still provided as an option by HP and Dell if you want to run large numbers of monitors... we've got a couple of good spec machines here with multiple video cards in.


i also had Voodoo 2s, and can remember when i first started working here my manager had to get a 100mB hard drive signed off by the finiance director cos ti was so expensive.
can also rememeber some of the back end servers for one of our pricing applications running from 5 1/4 " floppy and communicating with the terminals over serial connections cos they had no LAN capability!

Sonic Boom

iTrader: (11)

I take it all back, ask me a question about water mains instead
Rich

RANJ

Blueboxing was great, as were hacked pbx`s,at&T cards...lol old days

Markb_s1

Stu.H

and the fact you could swap someones phone service from at&t > MCI or vice versa, say you want to specify the PIN for the calling card, wait a few days and valid calling card number = phone number + pin you specified = free calls worldwide, or at least to the at&t teleconferencing service

Roscco

Any links to the 256GB sticks??

I've got a TB HDD, and although its filling up fast, how much of the content i'll use is debatable.
Unless your gonna catalogue MASSES of HD films, can't really see the point. End of the day, a spreadsheet or document are only gonna be so big.
It's the possibilities we've yet to conceive that'll take up the space IMO.

Turby2

4MB was massive... 1st PC's I used were 640Kb monsters, no hard drives and dual 5 1/4" 360 Kb floppies. Green on black VDUs as well

DanRSturbo

My first PC was a Packard Bell Pentium 200MMX I think it had 16 meg ram, and onboard graphics and sound, and a 500 meg hard drive

Ran Doom II flawlessly though

Sonic Boom

iTrader: (11)

Ahh Doom I remember staying after school and high jacking an out of the way IT room to play that with a few mates over the LAN.
Rich

Escy

Whats the biggest mirco SD cards out at the moment?

Fil

16GBs the biggest ive seen

GTi-R23

I've got an 8GB memory stick, and it's fucking tiny, literally fills the USB port and that's it, just about get your finger nails on it to pull it out.