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> Its crazy my iPhone only has 128gb of storage. It's crazy to me that the word "only" can be applied to 128 gigabytes of storage. It's over a thousand times m
by cesarb 2y ago
> Its crazy my iPhone only has 128gb of storage.
It's crazy to me that the word "only" can be applied to 128 gigabytes of storage. It's over a thousand times more storage than what I had on my first computer, and the whole phone is physically smaller than just the storage of that computer.
To use a more modern comparison: 128 gigabytes is around 200 standard-sized CDs, which would be a pile of disks nearly a quarter of a meter high. I don't even want to calculate how tall the corresponding pile of floppy disks would be.
- userbinator 2y ago...and it's crazy that flash storage only costs around $0.10/GB now.
- slau 2y ago> I don't even want to calculate how tall the corresponding pile of floppy disks would be. I do! Assuming 3.5” floppies with 1.44MB capacity, and ignoring the split container overhead. 128GiB / 1.41MiB = 92960 92960 * 3.3mm = 307m That’s just 7GiB away from being as tall as the Eiffel Tower!
- cosmotic 2y agoAlso consider the size of apps have dramatically increased, as have the size of photos and videos. Maybe it would be better to measure how 'crazy' something is by looking at how many normal users are hitting 'disk full' status after normal use.