31 May
2023
31 May
'23
7:52 p.m.
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:22:53PM -0500, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
In 1981 when i got my first 5MB hard disk drive at
work (I had to write the
drivers for the OS myself) I was able to put all or my source code,
binaries, executable, applications and the operating system and not fill
half of that disk.
A the first computer science class in school (very early 90s) our teacher
held up a 3.5" 1.44M floppy and told us that "this can hold all you'll
ever write" ... well, that aged worse than fresh milk ;-)
A single .raw file from my camera can be over 20MB
now.
Indeed. The camera archive (2 people shooting DSLRs - strictly as a hobby,
not professionals) here is at 1.5T now here and of course only ever growing.
Even the compressed archive of my diploma thesis (written in LaTeX,
as one does - so no bloated MS Word files) won't fit on a 1.44M floppy
at 1.9M in size and that happened not that many years after the above
overly optimistic statement.
And anybody doing _any_ amount of programming outside of ones job
surely has written way more source code than would ever fit on a 1.44M
floppy, even after LZ4 compression. I know I did and I don't get to
write much code these days.
Is technology advancing us or just helping us to
create more and more
storage needs 😁?
"Too much storage capacity" is a thing that fundamentally cannot exist,
data grows to fill available storage capacity eventually (and usually
much sooner than one likes). ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison