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Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD: The world’s largest hard drive
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| Aug 13, 2015
| Sebastian Anthony
Posted on 08/16/2015 4:56:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: dfwgator
10MB hard disk for $3500. What year was that, mid 70s? I remember buying a 20MB HD in the mid 80s for $400 for my PC. My boss complained because he bought his 5MB HD the year before for $400. Back then, 5MB, let alone 10MB was huge! In the 70s it was gigantic.
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posted on
08/16/2015 7:20:23 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: Norm Lenhart
What a complete waste of time and technology. No one will ever need more than 64K.
LOL. I remember when I installed my first SCSI port and purchased a 2OMB hard drive. I was king of the world!
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posted on
08/16/2015 7:20:43 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
To: tflabo
"My first PC was a Tandy 286 with a 40MB HD." Noob. '-) My first computer was an Apple][+ with 16 K of RAM (I upgraded it to 64K) -- and a Radio Shack cassette tape player as my "hard drive"...
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posted on
08/16/2015 7:25:04 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
This is a 5 MB drive ca 1956.
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posted on
08/16/2015 7:38:31 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Zaphod Beeblebrox for president!)
To: unixfox
So did i..did many a head alignment
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posted on
08/16/2015 7:48:18 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(SCOTUS=News peak)
To: The Duke
I believe the 8087 came out before the Weitek math coprocessors. The Intel guys who started Weitek could well have designed the 8087 at Intel. I purchased my 8087 very soon after the IBM PC-1 was first introduced (it had a socket for the 8087). It shared the CPU bus with the 8088 and used “escape” codes to hold the CPU while the coprocessor was accessing the bus...
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posted on
08/16/2015 7:49:40 PM PDT
by
DB
To: GraceG
So two of these should theoretically store a human mind est... 27TB M'kay, I gotta acks fora link for dat...
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posted on
08/16/2015 7:50:16 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: dfwgator
I used the 5MB fixed & 5MB removable drive.
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:20:03 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
To: GraceG
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:39:36 PM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
To: RayChuang88
Make optical backups in preparation for the next Carrington Event.
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:41:24 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
To: tflabo
My first PC was a Tandy 286 with a 40MB HD.Ha! My first PC was a Morrow Designs Z80 with 64K of RAM, dual 360K floppies, and ran CP/M patched with ZCPR3.3. I could have gotten a 10MB HD for an extra $300, but I couldn't afford it.
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posted on
08/16/2015 10:04:01 PM PDT
by
Monitor
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
To: fulltlt
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posted on
08/16/2015 10:11:11 PM PDT
by
Monitor
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
To: RayChuang88
I'm currently using 6 terabyte SSD's for my Macs. My apologies, I meant 6 terabyte HD's - spinning variety. No way could I afford that as solid state!
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posted on
08/16/2015 10:57:23 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: Norm Lenhart
What a complete waste of time and technology. No one will ever need more than 64K.The figure was 640K, and Gates denies ever saying it, for example in his syndicated column in the mid-90s. Indeed, in the column he also notes that mainstream memory requirements double every couple of years. You'd expect the most successful software entrepeneur of all time to know something like that, I think!
Oddly enough, it's the kind of statement that makes sense in the short term: "For all practical purposes, you won't need more than 640K of RAM for the foreseeable life of this PC." (10 years after that, substitute "4MB"; a decade after that, substitute "2GB," etc.) However, Gates seems to deny having said it at all.
To: zeugma
This is a 5 MB drive ca 1956.There used to be a computer-recycling/used computer parts store here that had a 10MB drive platter from the 70s on display. I always thought that if I had one, it would make an amazing bistro table.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Near the end, the article above suggests that it will be over $5,000. The going price for Samsung's 2.5-inch 2TB SSD is between $800 and $1,000. It's 5000 GBP or roughly $7800. The SSD 850 PRO costs about 480 for 1 TB, so this isn't crazy. However, we are dealing with R&D for a new product targetting servers. $16,000 would not be out of the realm of possibility, so I'd guess $12,000.
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posted on
08/17/2015 10:36:06 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: Norm Lenhart
Nope they were about the size of a two to three drawer file cabinet. My first project used four Gould 32/77 with a vector processor array. This allowed us to replace the then in use flux synthesis core model with a with a multi nodal first principles core. This was a significant improvement in license operator training nuclear simulators. We were at the limit of the hardware. Those were the days.
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posted on
08/18/2015 6:39:13 PM PDT
by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: Nuc 1.1
I think it’s safe to say that you just shot that considerably over my head. My nerd/geek level is pretty up there but I bow to your pocket protector ;)
To: Norm Lenhart
To: Norm Lenhart
No problem my friend. I am no where near as sharp as I used to be. Getting comfortable in my decrepitude. ;D)
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posted on
08/18/2015 7:23:29 PM PDT
by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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