> 64 bits provides 16 EiB (16 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1 GiB), which is the sort of address space you might need for byte-level addressing of a warehouse full of

> 64 bits provides 16 EiB (16 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1 GiB), which is the sort of address space you might need for byte-level addressing of a warehouse full of high-density HDDs. Memory sizes don't grow like they used to An exabyte was an absolutely incomprehensible amount of memory, once. Nearly as incomprehensible as 4 gigabytes seemed, at one time. But as you note, 64 bits of addressable data can fit into a single warehouse now. Going by the historical rate of increase, $100 would buy about a petabyte of storage in 2040. Even presuming a major slowdown, we still start running into 64 bit addressing as a practical limit, perhaps sooner than you think.