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Microsoft is following Google decision two years ago to stop their more generous (than MS) storage plan for educational institutions. A lot of the people who h

Microsoft is following Google decision two years ago to stop their more generous (than MS) storage plan for educational institutions. A lot of the people who had MS offering instead of google were saying that they are safe with their choice. 1TB is much more reasonable than "unlimited" and Microsoft would keep it. Now here we are. Happy to be part of CERN so I don't have to worry about my institution storage situation at all. And it is not like one drive or google drive would be suitable for me anyway.

Lucasoato 3y ago
CERN is one of the few institutions in the world to keep using Hadoop clusters, I wonder how it feels like!
pjmlp 3y ago
I guess there are more generous nowadays than they used to be, I surely didn't had such storage access during early 2000's.
- elashri 3y ago
  You remind me of my professor telling me not to complain about low memory. He then will tell me about how much he was excited when he could have a machine with 1MB memory in 1980s when he was my age.
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    48 KB on my case, in 1986, with a Timex 2068. Later on I was kind of envious of my friends with an Amiga 500 and its 512 KB, until getting a 386 SX, with 2 MB in 1992. Yeah, really understand where the professor was coming from.
    - elashri 3y ago
      These discussions always remind me that I was born between two eras. I am too young to have lived through seeing how little resources computers had and how limited network communication was. But also too old to be in the era where people grow up with abundance of tech (personal phones, computers...etc). So, I am still amazed by how people on the two sides spectrum grew up.
      - pjmlp 3y ago
        It happens to all generations, I had a professor which used to tell the story of how he broke the record of compilations per days on computer department, by being able to deliver new cards at every compilation shift throughout the day. The "interactive" compile-debug-fix of his day. Something that I never experienced myself.
  - robertlagrant 3y ago
    Memory was a real limitation, though. You can store an insane amount of stuff with 20GB already.
    - biofox 3y ago
      You can store an insane amount of plain text or low-res jpegs. My collection of papers and ebooks far exceeds 20 GB though.
- wongarsu 3y ago
  Gmail was launched in 2004 with 1GB of free storage, increasing to 2GB in 2005. Adjusting for HDD costs in those years compared to today (according to [1]) that's the equivalent of 40GB or 57GB today. And that's for the general public, not just educational institutions. Not sure anyone gave you generous free FTP space back then, and Dropbox wasn't invented yet. But people did absolutely abuse gmail for file storage. 1: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...

Lucasoato 3y ago

CERN is one of the few institutions in the world to keep using Hadoop clusters, I wonder how it feels like!

pjmlp 3y ago

I guess there are more generous nowadays than they used to be, I surely didn't had such storage access during early 2000's.

elashri 3y ago
You remind me of my professor telling me not to complain about low memory. He then will tell me about how much he was excited when he could have a machine with 1MB memory in 1980s when he was my age.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  48 KB on my case, in 1986, with a Timex 2068. Later on I was kind of envious of my friends with an Amiga 500 and its 512 KB, until getting a 386 SX, with 2 MB in 1992. Yeah, really understand where the professor was coming from.
  - elashri 3y ago
    These discussions always remind me that I was born between two eras. I am too young to have lived through seeing how little resources computers had and how limited network communication was. But also too old to be in the era where people grow up with abundance of tech (personal phones, computers...etc). So, I am still amazed by how people on the two sides spectrum grew up.
    - pjmlp 3y ago
      It happens to all generations, I had a professor which used to tell the story of how he broke the record of compilations per days on computer department, by being able to deliver new cards at every compilation shift throughout the day. The "interactive" compile-debug-fix of his day. Something that I never experienced myself.
- robertlagrant 3y ago
  Memory was a real limitation, though. You can store an insane amount of stuff with 20GB already.
  - biofox 3y ago
    You can store an insane amount of plain text or low-res jpegs. My collection of papers and ebooks far exceeds 20 GB though.
wongarsu 3y ago
Gmail was launched in 2004 with 1GB of free storage, increasing to 2GB in 2005. Adjusting for HDD costs in those years compared to today (according to [1]) that's the equivalent of 40GB or 57GB today. And that's for the general public, not just educational institutions. Not sure anyone gave you generous free FTP space back then, and Dropbox wasn't invented yet. But people did absolutely abuse gmail for file storage. 1: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...