Welcome to 'data creep'. There was the day that we counted bytes of code in a program or data, now we just think in megabytes.
IMHO, as we have more capability, we use it, sometimes squander it. One of my history examples, I came up with a cost analysis of having datacenters and terminals being cheaper than the gen1 (or 2) PCs on everyone's desk at the major company where I was working. My boss told me to trash the study because we were going to use desktops no matter what the facts were. ... Such is life. Since then the costs have changed and individual computers are now cheaper. Mainframes still have their place in real production (huge amounts of I/O or certain problems in engineering that can't be easily functionally decomposed for multiple small processors, etc, but their value for the more common efforts are dwindling as smaller/distributed machines make more sense on a case by case basis. Just my thoughts. ... I'm retired, so my opinion doesn't matter much to anyone but me. <<grin>> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 7:42 PM Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone else remember when the trial size storage offered by companies > like google, backblaze, etc was actually useful? Today it is still around > the same 10 Gb size, but that is much less useful today than it was 20 > years ago :-). Back then, it was HUGE. Today it is so small I'm not even > willing to give it a trial as my personal NAS has 3 orders of magnitude > more storage. 10 Gb would let me store one small VM virtual drive. > > More as it happens... > > Andy F > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAB%2B-c-q4SL9k7mqs4AWPQ5dyVYO1vWzAYotvv19Nuzci5DfHTQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAB%2B-c-q4SL9k7mqs4AWPQ5dyVYO1vWzAYotvv19Nuzci5DfHTQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ><> ... Jack If you are not paying for something, you are not a consumer, you are the product. - Chamath Palihapitiya "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Ben Franklin -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAFq0N1z%3D-eriAGT29LSZW3xaAaU2aCicSKxwtkMSPWLTO0WGVw%40mail.gmail.com.
