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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (7816)	3/29/2013 3:34:59 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 7841

When it is ON SALE it goes for $99. One of my flyers had a 4TB external drive for $149 today...

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (7816)	3/9/2014 4:26:14 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 7841

Oil Explorer Strikes Black Gold With 20 PB Data Reservoir Published: 1:11 pm, March 7, 2014 by Timothy Prickett Morgan The conventional wisdom at large enterprises that deal with truly enormous datasets is that they can’t keep it all online. At some point, because of the high cost of disk storage, the argument goes, some of the least-frequently used data has to be pushed off to massive tape libraries and managed by archiving and retrieval software. But what does a company do when its data doesn’t age? After years of doing it the conventional way, oil and gas exploration and drilling company Apache Corp eventually decided to just keep everything on disk – and that means everything, forever – and remove tape from the equation. Cont... enterprisetech.com

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (7816)	4/11/2014 5:04:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7841

Going from 6TB to 60TB in six years While capacity on hard disk drives has been doubling every 12 to 18 months -- faster than Moore's Law and integrated circuits -- there is a coming sea change that will drive the capacity up 10-fold, according to hard drive maker Seagate. While that is remarkable, past changes and recent technology breakthroughs have led us to today's 6TB data center drives and 4TB desktop drives. Data storage is among the few techological advances that has actually surpassed our current needs. computerworld.com