Thursday, April 12, 2007
HDD capacity history and prediction
I searched for the max hard-disk drive capacity in different years and made a graph of the results. One datapoint every year from 2000. I used a polynomial to extrapolate the data. I didn't use technical information in the prediction, it is purely mathematical. It's a rough guesstimate, but interesting nonetheless.
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Nice graph. Though I think you are mistaken on the HDD capacity.
There already is a 1TB HDD available.
Ok, cool, I searched again and updated some numbers and made a new graph.
The last few entries do cause a large change in the prediction when they are changed. Better research/more datapoints could create a better prediction, but I'm not going to do that :)
lazy?
what kind of polynomial did you use?
btw I'll still buy a new 500GB harddrive next week (need to backup my music)
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