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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3 comments:

  1. cybrbeast12 April, 2007 12:25

    Nice graph. Though I think you are mistaken on the HDD capacity.
    There already is a 1TB HDD available.

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  2. annom12 April, 2007 13:33

    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 :)

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  3. pimp-a-lot bear13 April, 2007 01:26

    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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