Hard Drive Monitor

[Bozo]

http://scienceblog.com/community/article2397.html


Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[sechs]

Is that what they were doing in there?

 

[ddrueding]

2 choice quotes from the article (not directly related to the story)

Industry analysts report that the average lifespan of a computer hard drive is 600,000 hours or 3.1 years.

In global-climate data storage alone, researchers estimate that the volume of recorded information is expected to soar – from 2 billion gigabytes in the year 2000 to 15 billion gigabytes in 2010.

Now that (15,000TB - 15PB?) is a lot of pron

 

[CityK]

Porn makes the net go round

 

[Mercutio]

I have absolute conviction that CityK's statement is the unmitigated truth.

 

[ddrueding]

How many hours of 1080i uncompressed porn would fit in 15PB?

 

[Mercutio]

It would be silly not to compress it.
And you know full well that the main issue with video iis bit-rate, not resolution.

That said, I've heard 500GB/hr for uncompressed HDTV signals.

 

[Mercutio]

Porn makes the net go round

Proof