[KitJ]

"today I have 24tb drives, yes one drive 24tb and I could get larger, maybe I can put 12 drives in a server with 2tb ram and 512 logical cores, but that is only today, what about in 5 years, or 10 years"

Respect. The computer I'm typing on has a 2Tb drive. Sufficient for my needs. A desktop.

Now do 37 yottabytes like the NSA's Utah Data Center. Look those up and get back to me. Just for your awareness and professional courtesy. :)

[dadfly]

impressive, too, KitJ. :), i started my computer engineering career in the 70’s and i’m now running linux on a 16 year, old many times repaired dell, with a paltry 2GB ram and cache, 1.3 GB swap and a 128 GB memory chip for the operating system and my few personal files. i started on teraks, commodore64s, and ibm pcs. we did have a dec vax running Berkeley and Bell Labs UNIX in our math department computer lab though. everyone had their own proprietary operating systems. lots of work to be had. ah the good old days.