SeilerBird
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I needed a flash drive to store my 2000 most favorite songs of all time for use with my 7.2 channel surround sound system. So I ordered a 16 gigabyte flash drive from Amazon. It is the size of my fingernail. It weighs a third of an ounce with the protective cover. It costs $7.48. That is including free shipping. It will arrive in less than two days. And I will use less than half the 16 gigs to store my 2000 songs.
About twenty years ago I saw a 40 gigabyte hard drive for sale at Frys and I was totally amazed they could make something with that much storage. It was the size of a small microwave oven. I didn't ask the price since a half gig hard drive was obscene at that point. I had to drive 50 miles round trip to get to Frys. And it had only been 8 years since I got my first PC which came with a 20 megabyte hard drive that I thought I could never fill in my lifetime.
What is next? In 10 years a 200 terabyte hard drive will be the size of a grain of rice and will be given away in a box of CrackerJacks?
About twenty years ago I saw a 40 gigabyte hard drive for sale at Frys and I was totally amazed they could make something with that much storage. It was the size of a small microwave oven. I didn't ask the price since a half gig hard drive was obscene at that point. I had to drive 50 miles round trip to get to Frys. And it had only been 8 years since I got my first PC which came with a 20 megabyte hard drive that I thought I could never fill in my lifetime.
What is next? In 10 years a 200 terabyte hard drive will be the size of a grain of rice and will be given away in a box of CrackerJacks?