We truly live in the future!

in #technology7 years ago

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My friend Lee shared with me this picture of him holding a 200gb SD card.

200 gigabytes! Anyone else remember 5.25 inch floppy disks with a massive 160kb per side?

It's things like this that bring home the feeling that we really are living in the future.

Remember floppy disks like Lee says?

The Vic-20 had 3.5kb RAM unless you added the 16kb RAM pack.

My first job out of school as a 15 year old kid was loading up the backup tapes on the hospital PDP-11 mini computer. I think those had under 200kb capacity.

And now ...

World's largest SSD capacity now stands at 100TB

There's a new SSD champion: Nimbus Data has released a drive with a record 100TB of flash storage.

What next?

We are getting to the point where our day-to-day tech is beyond what we would read about in science fiction when we were growing up.

What a time to be alive!

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100 TB of flash storage is amazing. You're right. The speed of change is mind boggling. Maybe we will see 1 PB storage soon? Who knows...

200 gigabytes! Anyone else remember 5.25 inch floppy disks with a massive 160kb per side?

Its crazy to think that the little micro SD card holds the equivalent of 625,000 of those 5.25" floppy disks. Laid end-to-end that's over 50 miles of disks--that's further than Washington D.C. to Baltimore

And the access speed for those floppies was like walking from DC to Baltimore ;)

Guess I was lucky, I started with 1.2Mbyte 8 inch floppy. Then came the 5.25 inch floppy.

I live in Baltimore and that's not a short drive. Wow. No pun intended.

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