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Hard Drive Capacity

  • 07-06-2014 10:42PM
    #1
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭


    I want people to displace practicalities in considering the following.
    If one were to use 50 * 24" platters ala IBM350. Capable of holding the same amount of data as our current generation of high capacity terrabyte territory hard-drives what potential capacity are we talking about.
    are we into pitabyte, exabyte territory. Possibly


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  • #2
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,807 ✭✭✭degsie


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    I want people to displace practicalities in considering the following.
    If one were to use 50 * 24" platters ala IBM350. Capable of holding the same amount of data as our current generation of high capacity terrabyte territory hard-drives what potential capacity are we talking about.
    are we into pitabyte, exabyte territory. Possibly

    Are we talking 6-bit or 8-bit characters, 'cause that's important..


  • #3
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    degsie wrote: »
    Are we talking 6-bit or 8-bit characters, 'cause that's important..

    true that. We are going 8bit for this. Let's keep it base 2.


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