{"id":1180,"date":"2006-01-17T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.org\/tech\/2006\/01\/17\/more_useful_metrics\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:57:54","slug":"more_useful_metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2006\/01\/17\/more_useful_metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"More useful metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terabyte-capacity disk drives will soon be available.<br \/>\nA terabyte is 1,000 (actually, 1,024) gigabytes; the PC on your desk probably has 100 or so gigabytes in it; the biggest iPod nano has eight gigabytes.<br \/>\n&#8230;. The last time the disk drive crossed such a threshold was in 1991, when the first gigabyte drives were introduced. Back then, all that people used computers for was actual work &#8212; spreadsheets and such &#8212; and it was hard to imagine why anyone would need so much storage. News accounts noted that a gigabyte would store 1,000 copies of &#8220;Gone With the Wind,&#8221; without ever explaining why you would want to. Those first gigabyte drives were priced in the neighborhood of $2,000, which on a cost-per-byte basis is 5,000 times as expensive as the latest model.<br \/>\nEven though not many people are expected to buy them, at least initially, it&#8217;s not as hard to explain what someone would do with a terabyte drive: record a lot of TV shows and movies. Television, especially high-definition TV, is the savior of the disk-drive industry because it requires vast amounts of storage. <u>A terabyte gets you 250 hours of HD programming: Sopranos, Super Bowls, whatever (emphasis added).<\/u><br \/>\nThe full article, by Lee Gomes, is <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB116899926866178403.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terabyte-capacity disk drives will soon be available. A terabyte is 1,000 (actually, 1,024) gigabytes; the PC on your desk probably has 100 or so gigabytes in it; the biggest iPod nano has eight gigabytes. &#8230;. The last time the disk drive crossed such a threshold was in 1991, when the first gigabyte drives were introduced. Back then, all that people used computers for was actual work &#8212; spreadsheets and such &#8212; and it was hard to imagine why anyone would need so much storage. News accounts noted that a gigabyte would store 1,000 copies of &#8220;Gone With the Wind,&#8221; without ever explaining why you would want to. Those first gigabyte drives were priced in the neighborhood of $2,000, which on<a class=\"ellipsis article-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2006\/01\/17\/more_useful_metrics\/\"><span> Read More &rsaquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"coauthors":[112],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Hance Haney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1180"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}