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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That thumbnail is now approaching or surpassing the capacity of the enter DASD farm where I worked 25 years ago (a DASD farm of the period was a big room with a collection of small refrigerator sized controllers each with a 12 inch cakebox on top that contained 8 discs). We stored 5 GB per spindle (each cakebox). The room required an enormous amount of power both to operate the devices and to cool them. Millions of dollars of equipment operated at thousands of dollars per month.

And the equivalent storage is now is for what? Is it going to be inserted into a computer? Is it part of an iPad? Is part of a phone?

I hope I have conveyed it well enough for the younger among you to appreciate it but this is technology advancing at breakneck speed. This is a million dollar computer floor in the palm of your hand!


12 posted on 12/07/2011 9:17:48 PM PST by jimfree (In Nov 2012 Herman Cain will have more relevant and quality executive experience than Barack Obama)
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To: jimfree
And the equivalent storage is now is for what? Is it going to be inserted into a computer? Is it part of an iPad? Is part of a phone?

Yes. SD cards for photo/videography now reach 64GB. My iPad has 64GB flash; you can be sure the next version (with "retina" display demanding much more storage) will be at least 128GB. iMacs have 256GB flash storage as an option; this will make those much cheaper. Phones, now maxing at 32GB, will soon be there.

Yeah. The DASD farms we both knew back then as storing the "digital crown jewels" of the corporation at costs of millions for equipment & personnel are now squished into your pocket for convenient access to your music & video entertainment at a cost of a couple day's pay. ...and at the same time, Google is well on its way to living up to its name (meaning "10^100") in storage capabilities.

36 posted on 12/08/2011 2:20:00 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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