When I bought my first PC about 1982. The seller told me that I would never live long enough to fill up the 10MB drive. I still bought the 40MB drive and it was still too small.
I think you might be off by a few years at least, a 40MB drive in 1982 would’ve been incredibly uncommon.
Idk man.
In the 1980s 8-inch drives used with some mid-range systems increased from a low of about 30 MB in 1980, to a top-of-the-line 3 GB in 1989.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives
Seems like 30MB wasn’t horribly uncommon in “mid-range systems” in 1980, so I doubt that 40MB in 1982 would’ve been “incredibly uncommon.”
But I’ve no personal experience from the time.
“Mid-range systems” is not referring to personal computers. “8-inch drives” is another clue.
True, he did say PC, fair enough.
It is possible that I might be slightly mistaken over something unimportant that happened 40 years ago. Yes it is possible.
I remember getting a 2 GB hard drive and thinking I’ll never be able to fill it up. Now I have video files more then 10 times that size
Awesome can’t wait til they’re cheap so I can replace my many hard drives with just one much larger one.
Make sure you buy two of them so you’ve got a backup. I’m uncomfortable storing 16TB worth of data on one drive, no way am I putting 32TB of anything I give a shit about onto one drive.
You can buy large second hand enterprise hard disks for relatively cheap. 20TB disks are like 250 bucks.
I look forward to a Backblaze analysis in a few years.
Still not enough to hold all my porn.
Holy shit how addicted are you?
Least addicted porn downloader.
Will raid 6 still be viable at this size or will this require something like raid 10 or even moving beyond raid.
ZFS has triple parity support for RAID-Z (basically RAID-5/RAID-6/RAID-7 with better data safety guarantees), so there’s that.
That’s enough for the entire filmography of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in beautiful 1080p (upscaled using world class software), and it would probably still be enough for some of the early shows of Cartoon Network, at least in 480p.
But then it would take ages to load anyway since it’s a hard drive and therefore has moving parts, leading to a significantly higher failure rate.
Ages is an understatement. This drive uses two new technologies that essentially expand the track momentarily plus smr
Eons perhaps?
Found the anti-HDD drama queen
I’m not a girl? “Anti-HDD drama king” makes more sense.
Not everything has to be so literal… as evidenced by your claims of “ages”.
Ok…
Slaps roof, you can fit so much Christina Model porn in here
