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That will never work. Data will always expand to use up all available storage. It's like trying to build more roads when your city has a traffic problem. You bu
by chongli 7y ago
That will never work. Data will always expand to use up all available storage. It's like trying to build more roads when your city has a traffic problem. You build roads to reduce traffic and improve commute times, and then more people start commuting from further away.
- OrgNet 7y agoyou are probably right... but what if it was like IPV6 where there are so many IPs that they should never run out... the unlimited storage dream.
- eukaryote31 7y agoUnlike IP addresses where you get exponentially more of them per unit cost (i.e size), storage space costs 1 bit per bit.
- OrgNet 7y agoI don't think that you understand what I said... I don't mean that IP addresses have anything to do with physical space. I only mean it in the sense that IPv6 supposedly solved a problem and we need the same thing to happen to storage space.
- cousin_it 7y agoHow about archiving all text written by everyone? Napkin calc: if every person in the world (10 billion people) types for 8 hours every day, at 200 characters per minute, 4 bytes per character, we need 10000000000 * 365 * 8 * 60 * 200 * 4 = on the order of 1 exabyte per year. That's a huge overestimate, but the world's storage capacity is growing much faster than even that. Or think of it this way: the lifetime output of George R.R. Martin is <10MB. The output of 100000 writers like him could fit in a 1TB drive ($50). If everyone in the US was as prolific as GRRM, you could archive their lifetime output for $150000. Everyone in the world, $5 million. That's 1/20th of the investment that Juicero got.
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