I know the title of this has some laughing, but I was more of thinking of the size of the PC hard drives. Size does matter if you want more storage space. How many remember the small 300MB Hard Drives? I can remember when Windows 3.1 had that size hard drive!
I was thinking of getting a new hard drive and remember when they used to be 300MB and how much times have changed. We have software or files that keep taking up more space on the hard drive. Maybe it is the files we store, and never get rid of? I get into saving wave files and creating music. I don’t know how many people are into collecting royalty free loops, but they add up. I have an old version of Acid Pro 4.0 and a Pro Tools module with software also that have editing features on them to mix tracks with.
Just look at the prices for a 500GB for over a hundred dollars.
So for a terabyte which was over a couple of thousand dollars at some time is $200-400 dollars which is more affordable. Soon within the next couple years it looks like a terabyte
might be the size of the common hard drive? I would envision the future of hard drives to be more of a flash drive for the pc in the future. It seems smaller and electronically can fit more digital on them.
The Flash Readers has at no point yet got to a terabyte and wonder if it ever will?
I would guess if the market demand was there one day perhaps it would have more size.
What about the other part of this, small hard drive for operating system and everything else on the net? I don’t have a crystal ball to predict the future, but what if all we needed was a operating system or a login and have the web as a giant mainframe and a hard drive would exist more to be online? We already can play games online? But there would be no privacy then if everything went to online storage. At one point some part of the technology market will change with something being more smaller. It seems at the moment they are trying to sell more mini desktops on newegg or they are trying to get rid of stock because they don’t sell? The cell phone as small as it is has an operating system in it, but it is the software components inside that make it interact with the integrated circuits.
