Picture - 1GB 20 Years Ago vs 1GB Now

[Spoofee]

1GB Space 20 years ago and 1GB now.

 

[DanC]

Where's the 1Gig now?

 

[LiveSquid]

Its the SD card that the hand is holding in the top right corner.

Saw this earlier on engadget. Or maybe gizmodo.

 

[Faerieglamour]

That is crazy.

 

[Spoofee]

fixed image link.

 

[K Ma]

WOW
20 years ago is not so long ago!
It looks like a circular saw!

 

[gr8nrg]

They could have made it even more impressive by comparing it to the 1 GB MICRO SD card, which is 1/5 the physical size of the standard SD

 

[superppl]

Don't forget we're comparing different technologies here. If we built a hard drive like that we could have a few hundred petabytes!!!!! (Where a petabyte is 1024 terabytes, and a terabyte is 1024 gigabytes.....)

 

[LiveSquid]

They could have made it even more impressive by comparing it to the 1 GB MICRO SD card, which is 1/5 the physical size of the standard SD

Also mentioned in a comment on gizmodo.

Personally, I like the look of the bigger one better. Not that I would want a rack of 750 of those things..

 

[tigger_too_wooh]

I love it!

I remember touring U of I and they were so proud of the SuperComputer that they had that basically took up an entire room!