Ever seen what a Gigabyte looked like 20 years ago?

http://www.custompc.co.uk/blogs/markcasey/files/2007/10/1gigvs1gig.jpg

Wow, we've come a long way. What's next??

Man, dat was a shock. Imagine me carryin 120 of those things. The next thing u know USB will have 4 terabytes.999realthings

lol at your sig i saw that post last night

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

comp_atkins

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

Engrish_Major

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

He meant comparing a present-day hard drive to that ancient, dinosaur era hard drive.

i think a good next step is to have a huge hard drive with wireless capability (like miles away and it still works) and you can have this device that you can use as a MP3 player, movie player, web browser, and you synch it with the hard drive miles away from it. idk.....KGB32

best would be one like that conne ted to the internet like a personal file server so you could connect to it anywhere in the world aslong as you had an internet connection

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

Engrish_Major

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

solid state flash rewriteable memory was invented in 1983 so they could have had it if they wanted too the Intel 2816 was the first electronically erasable one but i can't find how much data the chip held though with it's predesesor the max they reached were millions of bits

[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

markop2003

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

solid state flash rewriteable memory was invented in 1983 so they could have had it if they wanted too the Intel 2816 was the first electronically erasable one but i can't find how much data the chip held though with it's predesesor the max they reached were millions of bits

They could have, theoretically, but it probably was prohibitively expensive. That's why we don't have solid-state hard drives in our computers now.

[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

stevenk4k5

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

He meant comparing a present-day hard drive to that ancient, dinosaur era hard drive.

I see. Makes sense.

[QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

Engrish_Major

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

solid state flash rewriteable memory was invented in 1983 so they could have had it if they wanted too the Intel 2816 was the first electronically erasable one but i can't find how much data the chip held though with it's predesesor the max they reached were millions of bits

They could have, theoretically, but it probably was prohibitively expensive. That's why we don't have solid-state hard drives in our computers now.

you're behind the times, solid state hard drives have been appearing in high end rigs over the past 2 years or so, i've seen someone who put 7 in their PC in RAID0, loaded in about 10 seconds

[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

markop2003

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

solid state flash rewriteable memory was invented in 1983 so they could have had it if they wanted too the Intel 2816 was the first electronically erasable one but i can't find how much data the chip held though with it's predesesor the max they reached were millions of bits

They could have, theoretically, but it probably was prohibitively expensive. That's why we don't have solid-state hard drives in our computers now.

you're behind the times, solid state hard drives have been appearing in high end rigs over the past 2 years or so, i've seen someone who put 7 in their PC in RAID0, loaded in about 10 seconds

Yeah, but how much do they cost? I explained that's why they're not in everyones' computers now.

[QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

Engrish_Major

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

solid state flash rewriteable memory was invented in 1983 so they could have had it if they wanted too the Intel 2816 was the first electronically erasable one but i can't find how much data the chip held though with it's predesesor the max they reached were millions of bits

They could have, theoretically, but it probably was prohibitively expensive. That's why we don't have solid-state hard drives in our computers now.

you're behind the times, solid state hard drives have been appearing in high end rigs over the past 2 years or so, i've seen someone who put 7 in their PC in RAID0, loaded in about 10 seconds

Yeah, but how much do they cost? I explained that's why they're not in everyones' computers now.

not main stream, this was back when they were $600 a piece for a 64gb version, though they're dropping in price very quickly

[QUOTE="stevenk4k5"][QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

they should have compared hard drive to hard drive. not hard drive to solid state. thats on fair :P

Engrish_Major

They probably didn't have a solid state GB then.

He meant comparing a present-day hard drive to that ancient, dinosaur era hard drive.

I see. Makes sense.

yeah.. take like a single platter our of the hard drive in like an ipod. and highlight the size on that platter that would equate to 1GB of storage.

Next we need files that don't consume space. o.OSolidSnake35

that would be pretty awesome. does storage online take up space? it must do somewhere, but where??:?

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"]Next we need files that don't consume space. o.Ojpph

that would be pretty awesome. does storage online take up space? it must do somewhere, but where??:?

Servers. :)

[QUOTE="jpph"]

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"]Next we need files that don't consume space. o.Ostevenk4k5

that would be pretty awesome. does storage online take up space? it must do somewhere, but where??:?

Servers. :)

its still stored on disk on the servers...

[QUOTE="stevenk4k5"][QUOTE="jpph"]

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"]Next we need files that don't consume space. o.Ocomp_atkins

that would be pretty awesome. does storage online take up space? it must do somewhere, but where??:?

Servers. :)

its still stored on disk on the servers...

I know that... I thought it was pretty common knowledge that servers had hard drives which is why I didn't mention it.