On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:16 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > Permit me to be old for a minute. 48, by the way.
Pshaw..get off my lawn you kid! 8-P > I had a 3GB drive that I paid $300 for. 3GB would take "forever" to > fill. Really? Now 3GB is 13 minutes of raw DV, not even a full DVD. When I started working here (1994), we had just set up our first-ever file server, with a *gargantuan* 10GB drive. Man we'd NEVER fill that up! (we still have that thing laying about, just to remind us..a huge 5 1/4" full height 15 pound chunk of metal) Now I can (and do, routinely) carry a USB flash drive in my pocket with more storage space, and we're looking at expanding our file server space (currently 6TB) to something like 20TB. Some years ago, when we were writing a justification for increasing the files servers (again!) I plotted our storage usage against time. Excel was able to fit an exponential curve function to it really closely, and we were in the part that's shooting almost straight up. We still are. "Data expands to fit the available space". -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
