Storage

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• The Problem with Big Hard Drives | Matthew Murray | PCMag.com
  • Up to and including Windows XP 32-bit (using 32-bit block addressing) (MBR = Master Boot Record)
    • Big = more than 2.19TB = 2³² logical blocks of 512 bytes = 2,199,023,255,552 bytes = 2.2*10¹² = 2.19TB
  • Newer OSs (using 64-bit block addressing) (GPT = GUID Partition Table) or (EFI)
    • Logical blocs of 4KB = logical blocks of 4096 bytes
    • Big = more than 9.4 zettabytes = 9.4 trillion gigabytes = 2⁶⁴ logical blocks of 4096 bytes = 9.4ZB = 9.4*10²¹ = 9,400,000,000,000TB
• Thrashing disk drive - Does your hard drive start working like crazy for no apparent reason when you aren't even using it? - Disk Thrashing
• CD & DVD burning
• Diskette label remover
  • LPS solvent / Label-off
  • D-Solvit
  • Goof-off
• On-line virtual disk space
• Disk Drives
  • Solid State Disk Drives
    • Super Talent Technology - SSD Memory and Flash
      2008-04-21  256GB,  2.5",  0.1ms access,  SATA-1,  US$6000
  • ioSafe - Internal and External Hard Drives and Network Storage (NAS) Solutions | Fireproof | Waterproof
• USB drives
• Wipe your disk ...
• Virtual Storage

Virtual Storage  (on-line virtual disk space)

• @Backup | Online - Remote Backup Services  ($99/yr 100MB) (free/cheap Internet file storage)
• Box.net - Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Online Storage, Access Documents & Files Anywhere, Backup Data, Send Files
  • Video: Box.net Eases File Sharing For Normal Folks - Wolfe's Den Blog - InformationWeek
• Carbonite Online Backup
• Driveway  -  No time limit on sharing.  Share an entire folder and protect it with a password.
• Dropbox - 2.GB/$0, 50.GB/$10/month, 100.GB/$20/month
• Flickr - Photo Sharing
• FreeDrive
• G.ho.st - Global Hosted Operating System - $0
• iFloppy.net "Your Free Internet Floppy Disk" (free/cheap Internet file storage)
• Jungle Disk - Reliable online backup and storage powered by Amazon S3 and Rackspace - JungleDisk
  • $0.15/GB, no service fees, unlimited storage, password protected
• Kodakgallery.com - Upload photos and pictures to your online photo albums at Kodakgallery.com
• Mozy Online Backup: Free. Automatic. Secure.
• My Docs Online! - Easy Access to Your Stuff (20MB free storage)
• Picasa 3: Free download from Google
• SkyDesk (@Backup, SkyFiler, etc.)
• Transfer Big Files - Free - Email Large Files
• X:drive - Your FREE Hard Drive on the Internet!  (free/cheap Internet file storage)

A Hard Disk Drive for the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first IBM 'SUPER' computer released in September 1956.
This HDD weighed over a ton and stored an "astonishing"  5 MB  of data. (= 0.005 GB = 0.000005 TB)
In other words, if you have one of those old original Apple iPhones from 2009 with only 32 GB of storage, it holds 6400 times as much data as this huge drive from 1956.
In other words, if you have a computer with a hard drive containing 2 TB (= 2000 GB = 2000000 MB) of storage, it holds 400000 times as much data as this huge drive from 1956.