>Robert Wrote...
>Wow that means I could make 50 backups of my entire data on one such drive!
>Seriously I have no idea what anyone could want with a desktop with one
>Tb except for excessive (illegal) downloading of movies/music. Also the
>same data takes often much more space uder NTFS than under ReiserFS as
>the used space by a file under NTFS is calculated as (size - size % 4k +
>4k) which means that in the mean every file uses 2 to 3 kb more space
>than it is big. Linux applications are also much smaller than many
>widows-applications (One game can use many Gb). I do not think that any
>of us even if he does it like me and installs three OS's one one
>computer will use much more than 200 Gb.
i remember clearly having the same conversation with a friend when we got the
first 286 (1Mb memory, 121 Mb hard drive). We couldn't see how to fill it up.
Mind you back then an os (Win 2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11) fitted on a few floppies.
Win95 was less than 50mb if installed correctly. Win98 120Mb, W2000, XP almost
500Mb ...
Debian fitted on less than once CD (I still have my Debian 1.??? disks. ).
redhat and other flavours the sam. RH 7 was five? CDs RH9 was 7-9?
I suspect moores law applies to O/s size and programme size. Also Murphys laws
for computers 9any programme will expand to fill the size of the ... allocated
to it.
also Db aplications are storing more and moe data to allow them to perform
actions they require. I suspect by the time 2010 rolls around we will wonder
how we ever coped with just 40-200Gb hard drives.
>
>>>The company is already testing sample drives based on perpendicular
>>>recording and says the technology could allow for 1TB desktop drives or
>>>20GB Microdrives in 2007.
>>>
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