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I can still remember my first day at Google in spring of 2000. A small crowd was gathered around a newly built server which had been stuffed to the gills with
by lisper 5y ago
I can still remember my first day at Google in spring of 2000. A small crowd was gathered around a newly built server which had been stuffed to the gills with 25 brand new 40GB hard drives, to which Google had just acquired an exclusive deal. I remember thinking, "Wow, that's a terabyte", an inconceivably large number back then. What would you ever do with that much storage?
Today a terabyte costs $99 and fits in my pocket.
- ksec 5y agoUnfortunately storage cost reduction has slowed / halted and we have no concrete information to suggest things will drastically improve. The new 22TB CMR HDD uses 10 Platter, i.e there is no increase in storage density per platter. NAND is similar as well with Multiple String stacking.