60 TERABYTE hard drives coming!

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.

@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.

@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.

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

@bunnyknight
Don't hold your breath for such🙂

my first computer had 64K

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

Should be interesting.

@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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My first gaming rig had no RAM at all. It was 100% wood that was carefully sculpted into rectangular blocks.

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Now we have a clue about your age. I once programmed on a ZX spectrum...

@ponderable said
Now we have a clue about your age. I once programmed on a ZX spectrum...

I learnt to program on a ZX 81 as a young lad.

1k is all you need.

YouTube : Chess in 1k

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no matter your age
I picture you as stunningly attractive

@Suzianne
It had all of 32 K of ram! Pretty advanced, eh🙂