7 Apr
2018
7 Apr
'18
3:09 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 09:01:44PM -0400, Paul Winalski wrote:
Last year I bought two 4 TB drives for backing up my
home computer.
As I walked to the check-out, it occurred to me that I was holding in
my hands over a thousand times the entire disk capacity of the world
at the time I started in the industry.
Yeah, it's crazy. When I was doing my first sys admin job it was on a
Masscomp that had a 40MB disk for 20 people. We made it work.
I believe someone announced a 40TB SSD, nope, just looked, Seagate announced
a 60TB SSD in 2016. WTF, that's a huge drive for rotating, that's insane
for SSD.
We old farts live in interesting times.
--lm