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1024 GB = Terabyte
1024 TB = Petabyte
The problem with making insanely large storage units (as discussed) is that you can only address them so fast, and to such a degree. Look at today's memory-addressing algorithms, and you'll find that it gets harder and harder to address data the farther you go.
Second, you'd need an insanely fast computer to handle it all.
Thirdly, you'd need an insanely fast way to access it all.
With one step up, you have to move everything else up. This is sort of like the problem people are finding with the new 64bit CPU's. We're in a 32bit world, and 64bit is just virgining. If you dropped a 1-petabyte drive into your current PC, it'd promptly vomit and die.
I don't think it'll be 10 years before we see another storage-capacity stepping point (the new CD-layering technology is right around the corner) but I do think it will be quite a while before we start passing around petabyte drives to consumers. I mean, let's see a raise of hands of people who have a terabyte of data now? No one's even reached the need (outside of the workplace) for a terabyte drive in their PC.
If we're not into terabytes yet, we're not going to be jumping right into petabytes. The technology is too expensive and the demand is too small.
1024 TB = Petabyte
The problem with making insanely large storage units (as discussed) is that you can only address them so fast, and to such a degree. Look at today's memory-addressing algorithms, and you'll find that it gets harder and harder to address data the farther you go.
Second, you'd need an insanely fast computer to handle it all.
Thirdly, you'd need an insanely fast way to access it all.
With one step up, you have to move everything else up. This is sort of like the problem people are finding with the new 64bit CPU's. We're in a 32bit world, and 64bit is just virgining. If you dropped a 1-petabyte drive into your current PC, it'd promptly vomit and die.
I don't think it'll be 10 years before we see another storage-capacity stepping point (the new CD-layering technology is right around the corner) but I do think it will be quite a while before we start passing around petabyte drives to consumers. I mean, let's see a raise of hands of people who have a terabyte of data now? No one's even reached the need (outside of the workplace) for a terabyte drive in their PC.
If we're not into terabytes yet, we're not going to be jumping right into petabytes. The technology is too expensive and the demand is too small.