Have you ever seen the posts showing what happens in a minute on the Internet? The speed and scope of activity is amazing ... so is how fast it is increasing.
The same is true for storage. It is getting bigger and cheaper quickly.
This picture shows an IBM VP holding a 10 MB hard drive from the 1960s.
via novartistic
When it was invented, I bet they wondered how someone could ever fill it. Now imagine what it cost back then.
For context, here are some things you can do with 10 MB of space:
- Download approximately 3 songs
- or 5 medium-sized photos
- or store 50-100 HTML e-mails
- or a 3 minute low-quality video (or 48 frames of 4k footage).
Things are changing.
Here's a link to a 256 GB flash drive that you can buy for about $50 dollars ... and here's a link to a working prototype of a 1 TB flash drive.
Here are some things you can do with 1 TB of space:
- Store 17,000 hours of music
- or an 85,899,345 page word document. (source)
- or 250 full-length movies
- or 310,000 photos.
I wonder how someone could ever fill it?
Crazy!
