Wow. In 2-5 years time, some predict you could buy a 1 petabyte hard drive.
That’s a very big disk.
50 petabytes is enough to store ‘the entire written works of mankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages.’
And only $750 for a 1 PB drive (I assume it would be ‘PB’, as in GB for Gigabyte, TB for Terabyte). That’s $37,500 for storage of all the written works of humanity. Bargain.
I wonder if ‘the entire written works of mankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages.’ is just talking about hand-written and printed text or whether it includes electronic text, such as pointless blog entries and useless comments on blog entries (like this one) and facebook status updates, which would be a large and ever-increasing proportion of it.
I guess not since it also says that Google processes 20PB a day.
I also wonder: will the home user ever grow out of a petabyte drive? We will need to develop something more resource-hungry than HD-TV video, but I think it will probably happen.