Data storage is getting smaller and smaller — what’s the limit?

SciTech Wahtfinger News ^ | December 18, 2021

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

"Is your storage always annoyingly full? Scientists are working toward storing data on a single atom. ..."

[Dr. Sivana]

Will it speed up my portable computer?

No. You need a 386sx ISA Card to a 16 bit slot. Even then, you will be limited by the bus speed.

[Scrambler Bob]

All you need is a “0” and a “1”.

Mix and match them as needed.

[moovova]

"Scientists are working toward storing data on a single atom. ..."

"Anybody seen my storage atom? I had it yesterday."

[Boomer]

[Dr. Sivana]

Anither possibility. That luggable might have a slot for either a Weitek or Intel 80287 Math Coprocessor. Your spreadsheets and fortan functions will zoom with that!

[SuperLuminal]

I’m frantically working on quark storage...
Just need to get the clouds of these danged Higgs thingees out of the way...
Going to Lowes to see if i can find some kind of spray...

[minnesota_bound]

Get a very good backup program called “Bvckup 2 Pro” https://bvckup2.com

I installed this past week and set it to backup my files and bookmarks and emails to an internal drive and a external drive. Very fast. Once the initial files are backed up it does incremental files so even faster.
You can set the time to what you want for it to automatically backup.
Pro for Workstation $49.99

File> Add new backup... Point to the location of the files you want to backup and where you want them to go and give it a description. It will backup even if you have a program open like the web browser or email.

I added my desktop files and bookmarks and email. I have used other programs that were to complicated.
This program is super easy to use. Example file path below.

C:\Users\your username \Desktop
E:\8TB Backup\Bvckup2\desktop
Backup to E drive Desktop files

C:\Users\your username \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla
E:\8TB Backup\Bvckup2\Mozilla backup
Backup to E drive Firefox bookmarks

C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird
E:\8TB Backup\Bvckup2\Thunderbird backup
Backup to E drive Thunderbird email

[Rebelbase]

I recall around 1988 an insurance guy who shared an office with us bought and IBM PC with a 20 gig hard drive.

We were using a dual 360K floppy system and calculated based on our production it would take 15 years for the insurance guy to fill his hard drive with data. Boy, were we wrong!

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

No offense, but 1988 would have been a 20 MegaByte hard drive, not GigaByte. Now I download files larger than 20 MB from YT all the time.

[Rebelbase]

D’oh! Thanks for the correction. It was a 20mb drive.

It blows my mind that you can buy a terabyte memory flash drive today.