Exponential growth

[Phil]

This is my cue to pose "Miller Tate's Conundrum": what fraction of today's silicon and / or magnetic memory will NEVER see data before it is junked? How has this fraction varied since the 1970s?

It is a VERY long time since I got an "Out Of Memory" or "Out Of Disk Space" error message.

Phil M1GWZ




On 8 Jan 2013, at 04:15, Mike ODELL wrote:

> even more entertaining would be the capacity of a pile of modern 4TB disks
> with the same *weight* as that drive!
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> Sent from my iPad so please excuse the jammy fingers.
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> On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Andre Kesteloot <andre.kesteloot at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> This ad is from 1980:
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>> Inn 1980, they were selling a 10 MB hard disk for $3,500. 
>> Adjusted for inflation that's about $9,500. 
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>> For $9,500 today you can get over 150 TB of hard disk. 
>> A TB is one million times bigger than a MB, so that's 15 million times more for the same money. 
>> That's 66% growth per year for 32 years.
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>> 73
>> André N4ICK
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