They probably have twice as many platters in them.  When I get the time,
I'll go back and dig up the article discussing hard drive limits as per
the laws of physics.  :-)



Jake Anderson wrote:

> 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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