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:: Thursday, August 16, 2001 ::
New announcement from Maxtor - a company that makes computer hard drives. They've developed technology to break the current IDE barrier of 137 GB on a hard drive.... here's the quote from the website.
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This breakthrough allows the creation of ATA hard drives that can access more than 100,000 times more data than the current 137GB interface standard.
The "Big Drive" interface initiative succeeds in breaking through the barrier with an upgraded ATA interface allowing for up to 48 bits of address space on a single drive, and therefore the maximum capacity of an ATA device up to 144PB.
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hmmm.... it goes kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte - right?
144 PB hard drive.... that's a lot of MP3s. Approximately 30 billion songs.
Where did they get the name "PETAbytes"? What does the Ethical Treatment of Animals have to do with my music collection? I don't like this one bit.
(NOTE - you probably missed the pun on 'bit')
Playing on the net to find out what comes after a Petabyte, I found a site that explains Data Powers of Ten. It includes what is widely accepted to be the next levels of storage - Exabyte, Zettabyte and Yottabyte. The last two have not yet been accepted as the "official" terminology for lack of real-world use and the fact that they are based of a new system of naming data storage. They probably will not be accepted until Maxtor figures out how to break the Exabyte barrier. I'll be happy when I have that so I can download even more illegal bootleg movies.
:: Stephen 8:58 PM [+] ::
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