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- synned, on 06/24/2008, -6/+92Why are we discussing this? Nobody will ever need more than 640TB.
- BoneheadFarker, on 06/24/2008, -0/+85When I was a kid, the first computer I had used a cassette tape. It held enough for one game, or a few programs I wrote myself. I thought this was amasing.
The second computer I had was a 286 with a 40 meg drive. This was an incredible amount of space, especially compared to most of my friends were playing with 8086s and floppies. At first I thought I would never fill it.
The 3rd computer I had was a 486 DX 33 with a 120 meg drive. What a relief it was not to have to delete programs in order to install new programs. I could have my Leisure Suit Larry and Police Quest games installed at the same time.
My 4th computer was an IBM PR200 with a 1 gig drive. Truly, now I had more then enough room. Until I discovered MP3s.
My 5th computer was a Celeron 300 with a 3 gig drive. It was enough to hold my college work, Star Craft and War Craft, and my entire MP3 collection at the time. But the MP3 collection was growing steady.
My 6th computer was an XP 2200+ with an 80 gig drive. This was an incredible amout of space that I never dreamed of filling. At least until I discovered I could download TV shows and movies.
My current media box is an XP 2200+ with 2 500 gig drives. It has a little under 200 gig free, and I'm planning on adding a 750 gig drive after the summer.
The bottom line is...you will ALWAYS find something to fill your hard drive with... - FuryOfThor, on 06/23/2008, -5/+80I can't wait until the cost of owning a petabyte HD is reasonable. I have no idea what the hell I'd do with all the space, but that's not really important.
- tomatogoodness, on 06/24/2008, -1/+62Not to be mistaken for PEDOBYTE, which is much, much scarier.
- Albumen, on 06/24/2008, -3/+42Does that make you a Petaphile??
- fixmonster, on 06/24/2008, -0/+36To save people time who were wondering like me:
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10^63 luma L - senae, on 06/24/2008, -1/+34Really, Really long HD Video?
Like, Super long.
And uncompressed.
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Get it?! Pedo Bite?!?!?! - alapoet, on 06/23/2008, -4/+35I know what I'd do with a petabye.
More music! More movies! - Bukowsky, on 06/24/2008, -4/+31PetaByte? Geez... I'm still trying to wrap my head around the Terrabyte
- KingBabi, on 06/24/2008, -0/+25Dugg for the story.
- championchap, on 06/24/2008, -1/+25TERROR BITE!?!
It's 2 scary words!
I don't want it :'( - santaliqueur, on 06/24/2008, -0/+20Spelling it correctly would be the first step.
- MacEnvy, on 06/24/2008, -0/+20I'm only 25, but I remember being in awe of the first 1 GB HDs. I remember being in awe of the first 100 GB HDs. I'm now about to purchase a 1 TB HD, and here we are talking about petabytes. It's an amazing time to be alive.
- NeoNevermore, on 06/24/2008, -2/+20It's funny how we always say the same thing about larger hard drives. Remember the conversation 10 years ago, talking about what it would be like to have one terabyte hard drives.
If I had a petabyte drive now, I would store tons of music and video, uncompressed. I'd also store uncompressed WAV files instead of MP3s, and backup high definition video including Blu-Ray. Oh, and also porn. - slipfish, on 06/24/2008, -0/+17I've always liked sortabyte. Perhaps they can throw kindabyte and itsabyte in there for good measure.
- serif69, on 06/24/2008, -3/+20More porn!
- TopherT, on 06/24/2008, -0/+15Ok, the porn joke is obviously going to get done alot. So how about something more interesting. Full life video retrieval. You wear a low power camera around your neck all day long which records your entire day, every day. You upload this to your computer, index it for the people you talk to, the words you are saying, etc. BOOM You've got a fully computer searchable memory. (Better keep it encrypted though)
On the down side you have concrete records of who you slept with that night you blacked out. - MattBot5000, on 06/24/2008, -0/+14Yawn, typical burying someone response. you get buried
- Cobainy, on 06/24/2008, -1/+14Whoosh...
- talonjasra, on 06/24/2008, -1/+14Um...just FYI the names past yotta- haven't been confirmed by the international committee that makes the names official..at least last I read anyways
- inactive, on 06/24/2008, -17/+29You know exactly what you'll do with that kind of storage....
Lots o' porn - elnerdo, on 06/24/2008, -0/+12We still have exa, zetta and yotta left, but after yotta, we're out of prefixes.
That's when the world will end. - MxM111, on 06/24/2008, -0/+11Nah! Windows 10 will require 5 petabyte just for home basic...
- inkyblue2, on 06/24/2008, -2/+12longcat.jpg
- Hellothere123, on 06/24/2008, -4/+13What single file could possibly be near a terabyte?
- cheeseplease, on 06/24/2008, -0/+9Don't let your 1 pedobyte disk anywhere near your 320 terabyte one.
- Professr, on 06/24/2008, -1/+9So... you voted for Bush?
- s0m31john, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8I once saw a guy on the news that had a pedobyte, he was going away for a long time.
- khuongsta, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8petabyte...ssd *drools*
- cheeseplease, on 06/24/2008, -1/+9You downloaded Google Earth in full detail?
- SemDD, on 06/24/2008, -3/+10The Cloud is the new Cake.
And then, there will be Cloud. - inactive, on 06/24/2008, -0/+7That's the sound of...
- SSCrow, on 06/24/2008, -0/+7I suppose with that much space you will be able to store every movie and song you have ever heard.
- blainer0121, on 06/24/2008, -0/+6I remember when it was just floppy disks and I wanted a 3.5". Then the 20 meg HD. messing with config.sys to get more extended and expanded ram.
Times have changed. And that was only ~20 years ago, and I'm only 32, if we don't blow ourselves up, the future is going to be awesome.
Can't wait. (I guess technically it always arriving) - CoyoteLoco, on 06/24/2008, -0/+6by the time we can afford petabyte. Windows will take half of the space.
- inactive, on 06/24/2008, -4/+10More educational ebooks
- tito13kfm, on 06/24/2008, -0/+6VR
- serif69, on 06/24/2008, -0/+6A virtual machine file.
Oh wait, are we doing jokes? - cheeseplease, on 06/24/2008, -0/+6Nice story, but what will be next?
We had: text -> programs -> still graphics (images and for games) -> audio -> video
What could possibly be next? Apart from higher quality (HD) video? - infinitus64, on 06/24/2008, -1/+7the internet is for porn you get buried.
- NamesTwister, on 06/24/2008, -0/+5and all the ones your friends have heard!
- coolian, on 06/24/2008, -0/+5Pedobite?
Aw, *****. - timusca, on 06/24/2008, -2/+7Bitching is not original.
- inactive, on 06/24/2008, -0/+5WTF?
- kolyana, on 06/24/2008, -1/+6I remember getting my first 6gig Hard-drive and thinking I was th s**t; heck, I even took it from England to the USA when I moved, thinking I could never be without it.
Nowadays I regularly install games that would fir on such a drive, I'm running half a dozen drives in the 400 gig range and I'm always wondering where my space is going.
Amazing how we grow to use what is available. - StephenCIreland, on 06/24/2008, -0/+5the pirate bay is about to get a whole lot more interesting...
- Bukowsky, on 06/24/2008, -2/+7are you kidding me?
I have two 8GB drives sitting here with me that are completely full. One is for work, One is for personal stuff.... and I need another one or larger one. - kdehead, on 06/24/2008, -2/+7maybe we'll one day be able to "download the internet" onto an exabyte drive.
as in, the ENTIRE internet... -
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