Faster than Moore's law
At 02:55 PM 7/7/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
"A few years ago". Lets call it two years ago. That would make the average hi-cap drive around 30gb.
Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time. -------- "They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years, and Hell, we're not using it anymore." -Jay Leno
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:31:45PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time.
Yes. Also, human-generated traffic (the relevant part: which email you write, which sites you browse) has an upper bound for each meat person. Even if one doesn't have access to your ISP's logs this should be enough to identify (not necessarily link to a specific fed-issued ID, though) almost every person within a session. I think it is safe to assume that every relevant traffic which is in clear is being recorded, some or all of it forever. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
At 09:31 PM 7/7/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 02:55 PM 7/7/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
"A few years ago". Lets call it two years ago. That would make the average hi-cap drive around 30gb.
Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time.
But access time has not nearly kept pace. Which is why all manner of database architectures have been created to make up for this shortcoming. steve
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote:
Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time.
But access time has not nearly kept pace. Which is why all manner of database architectures have been created to make up for this shortcoming.
Which is still perfectly fine for data that you collect but search/access very rarely which I'd guess is the type of data we're talking about here. You collect the data, index it (or extract metadata from it in other ways) and you _almost_ never access it again.
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