IP: Would You Believe?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:54:46 -0400
> To: "David J. Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> From: "Tice F. DeYoung" <tdeyoung () mail arc nasa gov>
> Subject: Would You Believe?
> Cc: ticed () bellatlantic net, rsolomon () dsl cis upenn edu
>
> Dave,
>
>    Here's an interesting tidbit that is pretty incredible.  For IP if you 
> want it.
>
> Tice
>
> From RoFC newsletter:
>
> ". . .in 1995, according to the
> June Gilder Technology Report (www.gildertech.com 
> <http://www.gildertech.com> ),
> all the computers in all the world contained a
> total of 200 terabytes of storage.
>
> This month -- just six years later, the advent of commodity ($300)
> 100-gigabyte drives means that just 2,000 PCs could contain
> the world's storage of 1995.   (There are about
> ten exabytes of storage overall all at this point in time --
> "half-a-millionfold growth in less than a decade."  IDC estimates that
> the data stored by companies is growing at 80% per year -
>
>         http://www.networkcomputing.com/1205/1205f1.html
>
> Looking forward, considering IBM's projections for .4-terabyte "Pixie
> Dust" drives in 2003, then take a mere 50 PCs to match all the storage,
> in all the world, of just eight years before.  And we can expect
> that trend to continue.
> "
> So does anyone think we need all this stuff?  Looks like just
> large amount of clutter.  But I guess that's the way folks are.
> Oh, wait, I forgot about the requirements for the new OS and
> integrated apps, this may not be enough.
>
> Also, I guess we'll all need to get to 64-bit PC OSs since our current
> ones are 32-bit (and can only handle 2.2 TB of data).



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