Thursday, November 3, 2016

If a person had said in 1996 he wanted 2 TB big HDD, be it 2.5" or 3.5", how would he be perceived?

They would first think that you were talking about GB and not TB. When they understood that you were talking about TB, most would just tell you that it was impossible and the few remaining would have started to explain just how much fun SCSI could be. You would have needed about three SCSI towers with the largest hard drives available (seven drives about 10 GB each) configured to appear as one drive. Normally, these towers were used for CD libraries but replace the CD-ROMs with hard drives and link them together to appear as one.

The real question would be at the time is why do you need so much storage. I know that now two TB isn’t that impressive, but then it was. Just as a 20 MB was in 1986. I asked for that and one meg of ram in a 80286 and they wanted to know what I needed with all that ram and storage.



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