Storage Goes Wild…

Guy Bunker

Good news… the CompactFlash Association has just released its V5 specification. This will up the maximum capacity to 144PB… as if the existing 137GB isn’t enough! Of course, it will be some time (couple of decades?) before we see devices with anywhere near this quantity of storage – but it is an indicator of where we are going, and more importantly where the supporting infrastructure, such as backup needs to move to. If you want a quick bit of mental arithmatic… how much would it cost to store 1PB of data on-line for a year today… answers on a postcard please… :-)

Now where did I put my HD video camera…

Guy Bunker

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