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Can any of my fellow nerds identify what that is in the picture to the right? If you guessed a computer’s hard drive you’re absolutely right! What makes it so amazing is that it was one of the “Original” hard drives from the birth of computers. It’s storage capacity was 500kb and one had to wear something like a space suit to handle it.<\/p>\n
To put things in their proper perspective, it would take four of these monster drives just to accomodate one of the digi-pix my camera produces. If you were to try to put a MP3 on it, you might get about the first 20 seconds of the song before you ran out of space. My Cellphone has 100x the storage capacity of this drive. To get the same storage my desktop computer currently has, multiply that drive 500,000 times and then condense it into a box not much bigger than a deck of cards! Here is a breakdown for ya…<\/p>\n
1024 bits= 1 byte
\n1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte
\n1024 kilobytes= 1 megabyte
\n1024 megabytes= 1 gigabyte
\n1024 gigabytes= 1 terabyte<\/p>\n
None of you probably give a rat’s-ass about this but I find it simply astounding how far we’ve come in just 20 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Can any of my fellow nerds identify what that is in the picture to the right? If you guessed a computer’s hard drive you’re absolutely right! What makes it so amazing is that it was one of the “Original” hard … Continue reading