On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 01:32 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
> Yet it is hardly a blip on an $8 - 32 gig stick drive. The old > days of 360K floppies and those newfangled hi-capacity 720 K and 1.44 > meg floppies seem so long ago.... You could stick a 1.44 meg floppy > in your pocket! That was crazy! .... Reminds me of an old saying. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes rolling down the highway at 60MPH." The modern version would be a shoebox full of microSD cards in a FedEx plane. You can buy 512GB microSD cards. They are 11x15x1mm. A shoebox (4" x 6" x 12") can hold 27,000 microSD cards. That is 13.8 petabytes (peta = 10^15). FedEx can deliver it just about anywhere in 24 hours. That works out to 160 giga-bytes per second, or about 1200 channels of gigabit Ethernet.... Of course there is the small problem of reading the data off the cards when it arrives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
