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Over the decades the race between size of data files and hard drives has been a steadily decreasing margin. I well remember my first HD, 200 megabytes, which was enough to store 250 Amiga floppy disks. Over the years processors and I/O throughput have increased to the point where Video is now the dominant type of file, such that my pc has multiple 2TB drives and I have to manage my storage carefully. Long gone is the casual ability to back up on floppies, then CD's, then DVD's and even BluRay's are now impractical. Putting aside backups, when are we going to get the next paradigm shifting technology in storage? This article suggests things do not look good.
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(Score: 1) by pogostix on Wednesday April 16 2014, @05:00AM
So you're saying 250gb ought to be enough for anybody? :P