I know you were just making a general point, I'm just being pedantic :-p
Moore's Law itself is strictly the defined in the original paper about
it, although most people do generalise it for application to other
things...
Moore's Law, in it's original form, still holds and is predicted to
hold for at least another 10 years. The increase in HD capacity has
apparently slowed over the last few years and is no longer holding to
a similar pattern.
Alex
On 3 Sep 2009, at 15:38, Brian Butterworth wrote:
The first hard drive we had a school was a Winchester for the BBC
Micro network, it was a "full hight" 5.25" drive, and it had a
capacity of 10 megabytes.
By the time I installed servers when I was a BT Broadcast, server
drive were "half hight" and in the 3" size, with capacities in
single gigabytes.
I popped a terrabyte in a server a few weeks ago, bought from PC
World (boo! hiss!) in the "half hight" 3" size.
Whilst I have a laptop drive under one of my monitors that is
smaller, most drives still are "half hight" 3".
I hold that experience suggests that you can apply Moore's Law to
hard drive capacity as well, and it seems reasonable that there will
be no move from "half hight" 3" drives.
Moore's law, in the basic form "double the stuff for the same price
in 18 months" applies to hard drives, and it works with broadband
and other communications speeds.
The only thing it doesn't work for is data compression and broadcast
networks.
I'm sorry if you think this is a misapplication of Moore's Law, I
was just trying to make a general point.
2009/9/3 Rhys Jones <r...@highfiddletea.co.uk>
Sorry, the Kryder's Law link should be:
http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/Kryder%27s.html
2009/9/3 Rhys Jones <r...@highfiddletea.co.uk>:
> Quite - I'm not aware that Moore said anything about the density of
> magnetic storage! Kryder's law is mentioned here:
> http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/harddrives.html
>
> Also, this is old but may be relevant (the projections don't seem to
> be more than an order of magnitude off the mark, if that):
> http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2002/12/04#1039028640
>
> Rhys
>
> 2009/9/3 Alex Mace <a...@hollytree.co.uk>:
>> Hmm, not sure it doesn't doesn't Moore's law actually say that
the density
>> of transistors will double every 18 months?
>> Alex
>> On 3 Sep 2009, at 09:08, Brian Butterworth wrote:
>>
>> Very nice. You could store 29 days of everything transitted on
Freeview (23
>> after switchover).
>> Moore's law says you're going to get it in a 36TB in a single
drive in five
>> years though...
>> 2009/9/2 Ian Forrester <ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk>
>>>
>>> http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-
>>> cheap-cloud-storage/
>>>
>>> Found via Frank Wales,
>>>
>>> I'm amazed, but this amazed me when I first saw it too -
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
>>>
>>> Secret[] Private[] Public[x]
>>>
>>> Ian Forrester
>>> Senior Backstage Producer, BBC R&D
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>>> ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk
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