Okay, I know that the article is refering to database, but the comments seem to have gone into the way of disc storage, so I will take the bait and go off topic.
Petabyte drives would not really be that unpractical of an application for people who like to archive stuff. I just filled up a 300 gig drive and a 750 gig drive with just stuff off of the DVR in under a year. While National Geographic HD may be compressed so badly that it barely looks better than HD, and a one hour show is under 2 gig, try archivin
Granted, these are extremes, but who would have thought 15 years ago when we first started hitting the 1 gig barrier, that in 2008 we would have discs used for storing movies that have a capacity of 50 gig, and we would even consider saving stuff at a resolution of 1920x1080 and have PCM sound at a bitrate of 4.6Mbps?
Actually, very many. The infamous Moore's "law" was well underway and everything was growing nice and exponential. Though what the future needs is the bandwidth revolution, it's not "We can store 50GB" but "Why should I store 50GB?". Give me a fast enough pipe and I'll download on demand, delete and if I want to watch it again a few years later I'll download it again. There's no need for millions of people each storing a multi-TB video archive.
Yawn... (Score:1, Insightful)
I could see practical applications (Score:3, Informative)
Okay, I know that the article is refering to database, but the comments seem to have gone into the way of disc storage, so I will take the bait and go off topic.
Petabyte drives would not really be that unpractical of an application for people who like to archive stuff. I just filled up a 300 gig drive and a 750 gig drive with just stuff off of the DVR in under a year. While National Geographic HD may be compressed so badly that it barely looks better than HD, and a one hour show is under 2 gig, try archivin
Re:I could see practical applications (Score:2)
Granted, these are extremes, but who would have thought 15 years ago when we first started hitting the 1 gig barrier, that in 2008 we would have discs used for storing movies that have a capacity of 50 gig, and we would even consider saving stuff at a resolution of 1920x1080 and have PCM sound at a bitrate of 4.6Mbps?
Actually, very many. The infamous Moore's "law" was well underway and everything was growing nice and exponential. Though what the future needs is the bandwidth revolution, it's not "We can store 50GB" but "Why should I store 50GB?". Give me a fast enough pipe and I'll download on demand, delete and if I want to watch it again a few years later I'll download it again. There's no need for millions of people each storing a multi-TB video archive.
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Give me a fast enough pipe and I'll download on demand, delete and if I want to watch it again a few years later I'll download it again.
Until the site(s) hosting (and that includes BitTorrent seeds) "it" take(s) "it" down.
It's foolish to rely on others when you can easily store "it" yourself.