60 TERABYTE hard drives coming!

sonhouse

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22 Mar 21 19:12

sonhouse

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22 Mar 21 19:12

https://www.engadget.com/upscaled-mamr-hamr-140023504.html

Not sure just how they are doing it but using microwaves and heating somehow squishes the size of the magnetic domains on the hard drive platter.

wildgrass

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22 Mar 21 21:12

@sonhouse said
https://www.engadget.com/upscaled-mamr-hamr-140023504.html

Not sure just how they are doing it but using microwaves and heating somehow squishes the size of the magnetic domains on the hard drive platter.

I had an mp3 player once with 16 megabytes of storage. Megabytes.

sonhouse

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23 Mar 21 13:58

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@wildgrass
A LONG time ago I worked on the original IBM hard drive, 14 inch platters that had ONE megabyte storage. We thought that was a huge amount of storage🙂
About the same time I worked on a 16 BIT memory block composed of 32 TUBES and was in a cabinet drawer taking up about 2 feet by 6 inches.

bunnyknight

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23 Mar 21 17:25

@sonhouse
I think I'll wait for carbon drives where each atomic strand holds a binary state -- and 60 Petabytes per square inch.

sonhouse

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23 Mar 21 21:36

@bunnyknight
Don't hold your breath for such🙂

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23 Mar 21 23:00

my first computer had 64K

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24 Mar 21 03:29

Maybe sonhouse can tell us how much onboard RAM the Apollo modules had.

Should be interesting.

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24 Mar 21 03:34

@sonhouse said
https://www.engadget.com/upscaled-mamr-hamr-140023504.html

Not sure just how they are doing it but using microwaves and heating somehow squishes the size of the magnetic domains on the hard drive platter.

This will just result in huge programs wasting memory and drive space.

I got a terabyte drive for my Xbox and I thought it was a gargantuan amount of space until I started loading it with games. Every generation thinks the same. My first PC had a 1 gigabyte drive and I thought I'll never fill that up. It was the first thing I replaced on that PC.

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