My how times have changed. One Gigabyte: Then and Now

Posted by Les on Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11:01 PM. Read 750 times. Tags: , ,
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A small reminder of how far we’ve come in our storage media. Below is a picture of an old 1 Gigabyte Hard Drive from around 20 years ago compared to a 1 Gigabyte Flash RAM card from today:


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And, yes, I know my last few posts have all been pictures or videos, but my brain is barely working at the moment and I though these were pretty cool. So there.

Found via Gismodo.

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Moloch United States Posted on 09/25/2007 at 05:19 AM

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DrKC United States Posted on 09/25/2007 at 10:02 AM

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just as scarry, you can get a 8gig sd card, thats big enough to hold an entire full length movie (at normal resolution) and all the special features… on an object the size of a postage stamp

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Les United States Posted on 09/25/2007 at 10:11 AM

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Not sure what you’re on about there Moloch. Going from 400x300 to 932x699 is considerably more than one pixel.

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decrepitoldfool United States Posted on 09/25/2007 at 10:13 PM

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Craig at Deep Sea News has an 8gb post-apocalyptic hardened USB Drive that he has gone to some lengths to try to destroy.  Very tempting to get one now that my 4gb Kingston is too small.

zilch Austria Posted on 09/26/2007 at 01:54 AM

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Dof- the USB drive looks intriguing.  I especially liked this test:

10 minutes in the right claw of a rock crab...no damage except to my own left digit

Now, I’m willing to bet that my band saw could do it some serious damage.  But although I have put a USB drive through the washer (some rust, still works) I can’t see a plausible scenario for accidentally sawing one in half.

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decrepitoldfool United States Posted on 09/26/2007 at 04:22 AM

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Actually, my plain old Kingston is just fine, durability wise, and considerably more compact in my pocket.  I guess I don’t lead an adventurous life.

lostalaska United States Posted on 09/26/2007 at 12:39 PM

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Wow, if that center cylinder is about the size of the platters for that hard drive thats insane.  It’s like the laserdisc of hard drives.

...any guesses what the RPM’s on that drive are?  It’s big enough that you’d think it would have to be bolted down or on spin up it would just run away from you.

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elwedriddsche United States Posted on 09/26/2007 at 12:54 PM

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Wow, if that center cylinder is about the size of the platters for that hard drive thats insane.

Par for the course. Ever lifted a Fujitsu Eagle? After you tightened the screw that locked the heads, of course.

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decrepitoldfool United States Posted on 09/27/2007 at 08:55 AM

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Wow, if that center cylinder is about the size of the platters for that hard drive thats insane.  It’s like the laserdisc of hard drives.

...any guesses what the RPM’s on that drive are?  It’s big enough that you’d think it would have to be bolted down or on spin up it would just run away from you.

The outer case of the drive is transparent: the brown-colored disks are the platters. 

I don’t know the RPM’s but a grumpy old friend of mine worked on earlier drives and said that once in a while there’d be a crash and the head would go flying.  That was on drives that weren’t enclosed and the head would go ricocheting across the room.  For that reason, and because it was easier to keep the platter enclosure dust-free than the entire room, they started enclosing the platters like this.

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