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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Graphs who wrote (36926)	11/22/1997 12:50:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Respond to of 58324

An interesting tidbit from "Death of the Floppy Disk" wired.com : Reich's advice: Be patient. "Disk density has been increasing by 50 to 60 percent per year for more than 25 years," he explains, which means a terabyte drive is approximately 20 years off. Using his numbers, if it continues at 55% average rate, according to my calculator, the number of years required = ln(40) / ln(1.55) = 3.69 / 0.438 = 8.4 . But IMO, with IBM's new GMR technology, the last 4 years growth rate is sustainable for another 4. Four years ago, a "hot" HD held 0.5 GB. Now a hot HD holds 8 GB, about a factor of 16 increase. This is a 100% increase per year (doubling every year). At this rate, in a little over 5 years we'll see terabyte HDs. A far cry from the author's 20 years..