Signs that we're living in the future
Oct. 28th, 2008 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I think I'm going to start a new series of posts...
Signs that we're living in the future...
For real world perspective, when you actually write data to the drive the space is so capacious that theOVERHEAD of structuring the filesystem metric-binary conversion factor is equivalent to:
- Two library floors of books on shelves
- Or one library floor of academic journals on shelves.
Signs that we're living in the future...
we’ve got something special in the shape of a 1.5TB Seagate that should grab your attention. It's the most capacious member of the Barracuda 7200.11 family, sporting an enormous 1.5TB capacity. That’s 1500 metric gigabytes or, to put it another way, this is a hard drive that is so colossal that you appear to lose more than 100GB when the drive is formatted by Windows. The reported capacity is 1,397GB. -ref
For real world perspective, when you actually write data to the drive the space is so capacious that the
- Two library floors of books on shelves
- Or one library floor of academic journals on shelves.
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Date: 2008-10-28 03:21 pm (UTC)I can't remember if it was Tim Berners-Lee or Eric Schmidt who predicted that in the very near future the amount of metadata on the Web would outsize the amount of actual data.
Feeling old fogey now...
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Date: 2008-10-28 03:29 pm (UTC)I can help!
My first computer was a 486-DX2 33mhz!
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Date: 2008-10-28 03:32 pm (UTC)Sigh. 486. Kids today, I tell ya.
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Date: 2008-10-28 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-28 04:37 pm (UTC)Sort of like saying "Hey, baby, want to get down with me and my big fat twelve?", when your units are ...centimeters.
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Date: 2008-10-28 04:51 pm (UTC)I just boggle that the space loss to conversion is as large as my current main HD.
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Date: 2008-10-28 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-30 11:50 pm (UTC)