I can remember a time when a computer shop guy said to me "Hey! Look at this. It's a 500 megabyte hard drive, and it's only 2 grand. That's half a gigabyte, you know!"
Come to think of it, I remember how blown away I was when I first increased my 90 kilobyte floppy drive (5-inch single-side, single-density) to a 1.2 megabyte drive (8-inch, double-sided, double-density).
These days, I get twitchy when my backup drive gets lower than two or three hundred gigabytes of free space.
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Come to think of it, I remember how blown away I was when I first increased my 90 kilobyte floppy drive (5-inch single-side, single-density) to a 1.2 megabyte drive (8-inch, double-sided, double-density).
These days, I get twitchy when my backup drive gets lower than two or three hundred gigabytes of free space.
It appears this "vandalism" was added back in August. It certainly caught my attention.
A lot of companies are producing many petabytes a day of logs and data.