{"id":49,"date":"2007-06-07T14:41:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-06-07T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:41:50","slug":"the-terabyte-drive-and-the-end-of-bigger-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"The terabyte drive and the end of bigger drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent development of the 1TB hard drive reminded me of my first thoughts about the end of the hard drive expansion.  Back when the 1 GB drives came out I calculated my total lifetime media need.  It came out under 10TB and half of that was video:<\/p>\n<p>1TB 200,000 books at 5MB\/book (every book I&#8217;ll read or know about)<br \/>\n1TB 200,000 songs, 5MB\/song (every song I&#8217;ll ever hear)<br \/>\n3TB 3000 movies, 1GB\/movie (every movie I&#8217;ll watch or desire to watch)<br \/>\n1TB 300 TV show seasons, 3GB each (ditto)<\/p>\n<p>Personal records:<br \/>\n1TB 500,000 photos, 2MB\/photo (every photo I&#8217;ll take or see)<br \/>\n1TB 2000 hours home video, 500MB\/hr (fun to shoot, but who will watch it?)<br \/>\n0.001 TB (every word I&#8217;ll write, email, publish)<br \/>\n0.1TB 1GB\/year (saved email and internet cruft, LOL cats, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>It sums up to 8TB\/life.  And indexes, you definitely need indexes, so say 1TB for indexes.<\/p>\n<p>This will expand as high res video\/photos phase in but even that won&#8217;t push this out much beyond 100TB.<\/p>\n<p>300 TB would allow you to record your entire life in video for 16hr\/day for 100 years at 500MB\/hr (one camera angle).  No compression for time spent watching your self-video is assumed. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent development of the 1TB hard drive reminded me of my first thoughts about the end of the hard drive expansion. Back when the 1 GB drives came out I calculated my total lifetime media need. It came out under 10TB and half of that was video: 1TB 200,000 books at 5MB\/book (every book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}