There are 256Gi consumer drives (yeah actually propper sizes not hdd
manufacturer sizes)they are spensive at the moment but they are coming down.
A friend i think had some 500gb hdd's.

there is always a way ;->
they may go to double sided disks in order to pack it in if they actually do
reach a limit. but i think thats still a fair way off yet
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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Shawn Wilton
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [OT:] Future and past PCs (was 3V power or somesuch)


Much of this is true.  However, I think he was saying that hard driver
would grow to obtain 1 tb sizes.  This will likely never happen.  Right
now most drives are limited to around 100 gb because you hit the
physical barrier at which you can pack magnetic "peaks" on a disk.
There's simply no way around this right now.

Larger hard drives will have to encompass a new technology.

William Chops Westfield wrote:

> On Wednesday, Apr 28, 2004, at 18:31 US/Pacific, Russell McMahon wrote:
>
>> In 2017 we can expect PCs (in whatever form they come) to have about
>> 250 times as much of everything as now.
>
>
> Why do you think that?  Compared to a 10MHz PC/XT, a generic current
> generation PC has about 200-300 times the CPU speed (2 to 3 GHz), 500
> to 1000 times the RAM (512Mi to 1Gi vs 1Mi), and 4000 to 50000 times
> the disk storage (40G to 500G vs 10Mi)  Things seem to scale rather
> differently.  (and the disk storage that has the most dramatic
> improvement has the more flexibility.  The 500G number is two drives,
> and most computers will handle 4 or more.  A terrabyte is well within
> reach of someone with the budget to have bought a PC/XT...)
>
> BillW
>
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