10tb drives by 2013?

[Auric]

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I remember being in a grad-school business class on computers. This was in 1982, in the days of CPM-80.

There was discussion about the newly-developed CDROM disks. Several folks asked the question, "Why do we need 650 MB of storage?" "How could people possibly use that much space?"

In context, how does that make sense? CD came out in 1982 explicitly to be filled with audio -that's why the capacity was needed. By 1985, CD-ROM could contain any data but likewise had to be pressed. It was not until the CD-R that user storage was possible and that did not even become relatively affordable until 1997.

 

[RebateMonger]

In context, how does that make sense? CD came out in 1982 explicitly to be filled with audio -that's why the capacity was needed. By 1985, CD-ROM could contain any data but likewise had to be pressed. It was not until the CD-R that user storage was possible and that did not even become relatively affordable until 1997.

Just because CDs weren't used for data storage in 1982 doesn't mean that in 1982 people weren't talking about their future uses. We don't have 10 TB disks, either, but we are talking about how we'd use them.

 

[Auric]

It must have been a diff'rent mindset then 'cause capacity limitations have been a problem certainly since teh innertubes and digital video went mainstream in the mid-nineties. It's been more like "If you build it, we will fill it". Maybe they weren't thinking beyond their spreadsheets.

 

[RebateMonger]

It must have been a diff'rent mindset then 'cause capacity limitations have been a problem certainly since teh innertubes and digital video went mainstream in the mid-nineties.

There's always a wide range in people's understanding and imagination when new technology is introduced. Today or one-thousand years ago, people don't change much.