Thanks for sharing. Paul: after reflecting on your post again, I just realized that once computers become intelligent enough, they could sift through those mountains of data quickly and extract the needed pertinent information. So perhaps soon, humans will be much more dependent on computers than we already are—or at least, those humans in trouble with the law! Interesting take on the volumes of data that the attorneys and prosecutors not to mention defendants.
The more serious the crime, the more volumes of data including references and copies of other cases! I have witnessed something very interesting prior to computers being involved and that is watching one person sue another claiming they should receive more money for child support. The step-mother had convinced the father from the very beginning of the the divorce to keep a physical calendar and mark the days the boys were in his care. Each year, the calendar gets taken down from the wall and placed in a safe place.
Sure enough, the mother sues the father and the step-mom reminds father of the calendars. Father takes calendars to court. There are some judges that believes no one produces reams of data that is junk which is why many of the world corporations get away with polluting or commandeering natural resources away from the public trust. The consumer or victim oftentimes do not have the resources or the ability to provide , pages of research study where , pages are filled with fluff.
You are so right of the prosecutors tactics. What size flash drive I might to need to store perhaps , songs only? Thanks IH. In either calculation, you would need storage equaling about gigabytes. I just did it quickly in my head, but I think the OP was off by nearly an order of magnitude.
I just was doing this out of curiosity and for possible future reference. Or did I miss something? OK I did miss something. But according to your assumptions a CD holds songs or about 10 record albums!
So, do I have it correct? And if so, when does anyone ever find the time to listen to , songs? Even if they were 3 minute pop songs that would take almost a year listening 24 hours a day, just to listen to all of them once. When would someone find time to eat, much less time to make silly responses to IT blogs? Just read your blog and the ensuing comments and thoughts. Loved the piece. Google Apps for work is offering up to 16TB. This is a lot of boxes. I am researching the possibility of transferring them all to flash drives, or some other kind of memory device.
So clearly I have more research to do! Thanks for your info. Dave, thanks for your comments. I have been in the business long enough that I remember working with bytes and kilobytes so my perspective has partly to do with my history.
It could be that the terabyte is the new megabyte and I just need to catch up Good luck getting everything moved over to storage. I am sure they come in 4TB, but maybe even 5 or 6 or wait a week! That seems all the OP needs. Some day I may want to, just as a backup. David, thanks for the follow-up. I think you are right about the future of movies. They could even be removable so you keep a small collection of drives on your shelf.
The other option is cloud storage but you need to have access to the cloud in order to utilize it. If I am backpacking in the wilderness area, I most likely will not have a signal to be able to access my movies. If I get lost however, accessing my cloud storage to watch movies will be the least of my worries For the most part, how much media does one really need immediate access, everywhere they are? Going camping and want a couple movies for the trip, just plan ahead, have them download the day before and watch them when you get there, or passengers watch them on the way.
Even small removable drives 1TB compact flash cards — not too small physical size, quite durable with a good cataloging system. Or maybe even a library system on your home network, where you buy a toaster size device, where it would have slots for maybe SD cards in it.
When you run out of space, just drop a few more cards into it. Heck, I remember my first computer class in high school, we saved programs on a paper punch-tape!
Memory was at a premium. A terabyte in a flash drive is like something out of Star Trek! And my iPhone probably has more power than the entire Houston control room for the Apollo moon missions. Cool times, huh? Dave, At the risk of revealing my age, all I can say is, you must have sat next to me in high school You described my experience to a tee. Cool times indeed. I think this is an interesting article. It looks like I may be among the youngest on this thread.
You are thinking of data storage in an antiquated way. Someone else mentioned 4K video, well with advances like blue ray, 4K, mp4, upcoming wearable technology, etc we will need more data storage for the same amount of content. Example: songs in mp3 format will be different then the amount of storage for songs in mp4 format. Thanks for your thoughts. You are correct and I probably need to update this blog post.
I was talking with someone the other day about Blu-ray, 4K and mp4. They all require a lot more storage space. I see 1 Tb flash thumb drives now as well as 2, 3, and 4 Tb backup drives from reliable suppliers such as Seagate.
The price is coming down as well. I wonder however whether storage makers are are working to keep up with the new content formats or are content providers developing new formats to take advantage of advances in storage technology. The real question however is when will we see the first consumer 1 petabyte drive?
Do you care to make any predictions? Thanks for your note. However, I run a music server full of hi-rez music on an XP machine, and it sounds as good as vinyl for files that were digitised from vinyl and the PC was free a friend was throwing it out and the DAC runs rings around the best redbook CD players and it costed about as much as a middle of the road consumer CD player.
I already mentioned my HD… I was just reading about DACs that perform nearly as good as mine, but are the size of a cigarette lighter! So, there have been advances. But also setbacks. Thanks for the great comments. Yes, a petabyte is terabytes or 1 quadrillion bytes. So, the question remains, how did we get from , bytes to a trillion bytes and a future quadrillion bytes.
I think a lot of it has to do with the physics and the fact that we can continue to pack more information into the same space and we are moving from mechanical disk drives to solid state drives.
I know we will hit physical limitations in the future and will have to think smarter about how large of programs we make. We may have become sloppy about how much memory and storage we use for common programs as your illustration of Word points out.
The physicists and electrical engineers designing and creating integrated circuits have done us a favor by continuing to push the physical limits but they have also made us lazy. All too true. The throwaway society is good for us folk who intercept perfectly good junk before it ends up in the tip!
BTW: just curious: has anyone calculated the theoretical limit for info, e. Or maybe the limit is the size of a silicon atom? Have you heard of any such calculations? Refer to the below chart to find out photos and images that you can store on your 1TB storage device. Do you love listening to music on your mobile phone?
Maybe you are using the memory card to store your favorite music and songs on your device. You might wonder how many songs 1TB memory card or any other storage device can actually hold? The average size of any 4K movies x is approximately GB, so you can say you can store up to 10 4K movies on 1TB storage drive.
Average file size of p video is around 2. Average p video size is GB, so we can say you can store around movies of p resolution on 1TB. A megabyte MB is 1, kilobytes. A gigabyte GB is 1, megabytes. A terabyte TB is 1, gigabytes. Harddrive prices are driven deep into the surface of the earth by the fact SSDs are becoming cheaper and cheaper, because the market demands more and more SSDs the price are going down.
Many laptops only have SSD storage, for example. SSD prices have come down a lot in recent times, too, with the price per gigabyte much lower than it once was. SSDs can withstand accidental drops and other shocks, vibration, extreme temperatures, and magnetic fields better than HDDs. SSDs commonly use less power and result in longer battery life because data access is much faster and the device is idle more often.
Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. It doesn't take a math genius to see that a family could easily burn through 1 terabyte of data in a month if three or four people are streaming every day. So what can you do if your streaming needs are greater than 1 terabyte per month? Spectrum provides unlimited data. Frontier FIOS also has no data cap. If you are a customer of another internet provider, you'll have to check with them to see whether you have a data cap.
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