Space

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First came floppy disks... well there were ones before it >> anywayz 3.5 diskettes holds >> 1.44mb

Then Cd-Roms >> 700mb

Hard Drives >> a few mbs to 1 gb - 200gbs now!

Flash Memory >> 16mb - 516mb

Dvd >> 4gbs or was it 3.7gbs?

what is next?!?!?

[4play]

dvd are 4.7 gb.

I reckon next programmers will begin to optimize there code again and we will only need 200 gb hdd's


But in truth we are probably looking at blue lasers which mean 100gb on one dvd disc.

since hdd are magnetic and the limit of data storage will soon be reached we will probably find ourselves in the situation of a dvd holding more information then your average hdd.

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lolz then we wouldnt need hard drives!.... lol.... wait i forgot

Zip Drives >> 250mbs 750mbs

[johnnytightlips2]

actually there are 250 gbs of hard drives now. and ur right it is changing very rapidly.

[amphoteric88]

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[ezyryder]

yes, true. Because Blu-Ray has a much smaller wavelength than red so with a smaller wavelength less of a disc is scanned at once causing in theory more space. This is already out I believe it is just not widely spread in the public domain.

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Originally posted by amphoteric88@5 April 2003 - 05:58
optical drives are gonna change from using red laser light to blue laser light soon. this will mean that capacity of the data mediums will rise

optical drives? u mean the

flash memory usb plug in ones?

ummm 250gb... technology sure has advanced alot

[DarthInsinuate]

did they ever get round to making 3mb floppy disks?

and DVDs can be double layered or two sided, i think they can have 4 layered discs

[RPerry]

and just think, I had only a 6 gig HD until 8 months ago I don't know how I survived that long, but my 30gig sure got filled up quick

[Lamsey]

optical drives? u mean the

flash memory usb plug in ones?

No, an optical drive is one that uses a laser, ie. CD/DVD drives