Storage Wars

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!