On 4 December 2014 at 11:33, Gregg Eshelman <g_ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I went back out to the cabinets, counted slots and did a bit of > multiplication. I was staring at the gutted remains of a one terabyte > RAID array. The first 500 gigabyte hard drives had just been introduced. > Amazing to think that for a street price of around $1K a person could > hold in one hand the same amount of data that only a few years before > required that multi-ton, several million $ multi-kilowatt sucking > behemoth - and that pair of drives would be far more reliable.
The comparison that boggles me is the 16GB thumb-drive and the 16k RAM Pack for the ZX81. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/ZX81_Sinclair_Research_advert.jpg It's the thing stuck on the back. Not just the volume of Sinclair RAM packs that would be needed to hold 1,000,000 of them, but the power consumption. It consumed 100mA. So, 50mW per pack = 500kW for the 16GB thumb drive. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
