{"id":113,"date":"2001-07-23T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=113"},"modified":"2019-05-30T22:33:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T04:33:27","slug":"all-the-disk-storage-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"All the disk storage in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010801172640\/http:\/\/www.compaq.com\/rcfoc\/20010723.html#_Toc520086835\">23 July 2001 issue<\/a> of the \"Rapidly Changing Face of Computing\":<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1995, according to the June <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gildertech.com\/\">Gilder Technology Report <\/a>, all the computers in all the world contained a total of 200 terabytes of storage. This month &#8212; just six years later, the advent of commodity ($300) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,53064,tk,dn061801X,00.asp\">100-gigabyte drives<\/a> means that just 2,000 PCs could contain the world's storage of 1995. (There are about ten exabytes of storage overall all at this point in time &#8212; \"half-a-millionfold growth in less than a decade.\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkcomputing.com\/1205\/1205f1.html\">IDC estimates<\/a> that the data stored by companies is growing at 80% per year.)<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, considering IBM's projections for <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010803164339\/http:\/\/www.compaq.com\/rcfoc\/20010604.html#_Toc515872877\">0.4-terabyte \"Pixie Dust\" drives in 2003<\/a>, it will then take a mere 500 PCs to match all the storage, in all the world, of just eight years before. And we can expect that trend to continue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 23 July 2001 issue of the \"Rapidly Changing Face of Computing\": In 1995, according to the June Gilder Technology Report , all the computers in all the world contained a total of 200 terabytes of storage. This month &#8212; just six years later, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=113\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}