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I think we’ve reached a point where drives have grown substantially more than file size (a movie was 700mb when my harddrive was <400gb, then 4-12gb when I had

I think we’ve reached a point where drives have grown substantially more than file size (a movie was 700mb when my harddrive was <400gb, then 4-12gb when I had 2-3tb, now they’re ~50gb if you want 4k but a 16tb drive is a few hundred dollars. Aside from movies I have little need to large volumes of storage, music files, photos and documents are insignificant in comparison. One thing I would like is a cheap backup mechanism capable of 1-20tb - if it’s cheap enough, immutable would be a good thing.

mattferderer 3y ago
This reminds me of a recent talk by Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang. He discusses video compression history a bit. He proposes in the future one would just send a very small amount of data & then the computer displaying the video would recreate everything based on prior knowledge of the person talking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZcvwZxkrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZcvwZxkrg Aside from personal use, it's well known that the amount of data being created every day is growing exponentially. Based on the article these discs are not meant for personal use but for data centers.