Disk Drives

DavidNJ

DavidNJ

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I'm sitting here, with a 1.5TB disk on my desk that cost $110. Last weekend, reorganizing part of my basement for an upcoming project, I came across some disk drives from my 286: a 30MB and an 80MB.

Then thinking about the 35MB/s RAW capture of the RED and SI2k, the 20 MB/s files from the Flash XDR, ProResHQ, and Cineform conversions, I realized that the now one disk could hold 20 hours of these amazing formats. And 20 years ago my C drive wouldn't have been have able hold 1 second.
 
DavidNJ said:
I'm sitting here, with a 1.5TB disk on my desk that cost $110. Last weekend, reorganizing part of my basement for an upcoming project, I came across some disk drives from my 286: a 30MB and an 80MB.

Then thinking about the 35MB/s RAW capture of the RED and SI2k, the 20 MB/s files from the Flash XDR, ProResHQ, and Cineform conversions, I realized that the now one disk could hold 20 hours of these amazing formats. And 20 years ago my C drive wouldn't have been have able hold 1 second.
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That's Moore's Law for you.

Don't forget that XDCamHD is rated in MegaBits per second, not Megabytes. There are 8 Bits in one Byte.
 
Yeah, not only that but I paid $600 for my 20MB hard drive for my Macintosh back in the early 90s.
 
I'm not all that old, but it amazes me as well to see exactly how much technology is advancing. I remember seeing TV commercials for 56k modems, which were supposed to revolutionize the whole internet experience. I still have some old parts in the attic as well, and it's impressive to look at the circuit boards; how spread out and empty the old ones were, compared to now, when we have much more packed and efficient boards in much smaller spaces. Cooling requirements have also changed a lot.
 
I have an IBM PC, with two 160k 5.25" floppy drives, a CGA monitor and 640k memory expansion card. I just can't get Adobe Premier Pro CS4 to work on it.:)
 
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