Comments on: How Long Will It Be Until We Need Petabyte Hard Drives

By: Baylor

Baylor — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:19:00 +0000

As high quality music and HD continues to evolve, and editing becomes easier, i think there will be a need for petabyte HD’s sooner than we think

By: Photo Enhancement

Photo Enhancement — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:31:00 +0000

Unbelievable how our storage requirements have changed. Funny things is, once we have PB’s we’ll been filling them up and need the next biggest size.

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By: Pastageek

Pastageek — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:15:07 +0000

That makes sense. Bill Gates never really seemed the type to limit himself, and if RAM never expanded, how could he make more software on such a limited market? So who came up with the phrase?

By: Pastageek

Pastageek — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:15:00 +0000

That makes sense. Bill Gates never really seemed the type to limit himself, and if RAM never expanded, how could he make more software on such a limited market? So who came up with the phrase?

By: Pastageek

Pastageek — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:12:05 +0000

Since written works aren’t the only thing out there and other things can take up much more space (say HD movies and software), it really isn’t relevant. As more and more software comes out to help us get our creativity onto the computer, storage demand is going to go sky high.

Also remember that right now what you use in a computer only deals with sight and sound. But what about when the other three senses are affected by the computer when such peripherals come out? And what about when they become HD integrated? Imagine a movie or game that was HD in all 5 senses. Don’t you think that it would take up more than traditional systems?

By: Pastageek

Pastageek — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:12:00 +0000

By: Certde

Certde — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:03:36 +0000

yeah, now a gigabyte is about $.10, being that most Terabyte drives are around $100

By: Certde

Certde — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:03:00 +0000

yeah, now a gigabyte is about $.10, being that most Terabyte drives are around $100

By: Retnuh66

Retnuh66 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:25:57 +0000

That quote has often been attributed to Bill Gates.. but is entirely fabricated. He denies it because he never said it.

By: Retnuh66

Retnuh66 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:25:00 +0000

That quote has often been attributed to Bill Gates.. but is entirely fabricated. He denies it because he never said it.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:18:49 +0000

If the combined written works of humanity are only 50 PB, then what the heck will we fill up our hard drives with when we get that big?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:18:00 +0000

If the combined written works of humanity are only 50 PB, then what the heck will we fill up our hard drives with when we get that big?

By: Ky

Ky — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:53:00 +0000

I had to laugh

When I bought my first computer, you could by a hard drive. A 5Kb (yes that is a K) Winchester drive was around $5000!

It is interesting to see where we have come.

By: Ky

Ky — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:53:00 +0000

I had to laugh

When I bought my first computer, you could by a hard drive. A 5Kb (yes that is a K) Winchester drive was around $5000!

It is interesting to see where we have come.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:02:06 +0000

Perhaps three more generations of Winbloat will require new computers to have petabyte drives to hold Windows and have room for user data. Unless, of course, corporate CIOs wake up and migrate to Linux or FreeBSD. That would legitimize the Unix-descended systems in the eyes of all those cubicle rats who view Windows as the “professional” OS because that’s what their company bought.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:02:00 +0000

By: iPhone for free

iPhone for free — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:05:51 +0000

Not only will we be wanting to store more and more data but the size of the data we will be storing will also increase exponentially as software gets more sophisticated and contains greater amounts of features, tools and accessibility. For example, I am currently happy with 5mega pixel photos, but in 5 years time that will probably be considered bad quality and so the size of each photo will increase.

By: iPhone for free

iPhone for free — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:05:00 +0000

By: Everton

Everton — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:57:43 +0000

thanks – fixed

By: Everton

Everton — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:57:00 +0000

thanks – fixed

By: Tim Igoe

Tim Igoe — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:54:26 +0000

With the amount of disk space going up and up… how many of us actually have PROPER backup systems in place… I’d bet not enough

Be it RAID’d setups to protect if a disk fails, or a genuine second copy, archived off somewhere. This is where storing some data in the cloud works wonders, having an ‘offsite’ copy of data can be a life saver.

By: Tim Igoe

Tim Igoe — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:54:00 +0000

With the amount of disk space going up and up… how many of us actually have PROPER backup systems in place… I’d bet not enough

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:34:49 +0000

oh yeah and everton your author bio says windows 8 twice, i think u ment to put you write for windows 7, windows 8. just fyi.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:34:00 +0000

oh yeah and everton your author bio says windows 8 twice, i think u ment to put you write for windows 7, windows 8. just fyi.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:32:28 +0000

i think there will always be petabytes worth of files that people don’t want in the cloud. i would always want an actual hard copy -so to speak- of all my photos, music etc, etc. i myself use a combo of the two like yourself.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:32:00 +0000