Thats A YottaBytes Of Storage!
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I just saw something on ComputerWorld that caught my eye. Seems that HP is saying that because of the increasing demand for storage, they expect to ship … get this .. a “Yottabyte” of storage per year sometime soon.
How much is a “Yottabyte”? Good question. I’ve never heard the word before today. The article defines it as “A Billion Gigabytes”.
It’s amazing really. I remember back in 1992 when a 40 megabyte hard drive was considered monstrous. Now there’s individual games that take up more space than that. Heck, I personally have a least one file that’s over a gigabyte and it’s not even something important! Not only that but it can get almost lost on my 250 gigabyte hard drive.
On the other hand, I’ve been drooling over the idea of 100 terabyte drives that I saw an article about a few months ago.
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