If we talk about the early days(the 80's or the 70's) the storage space was measured in kilobytes or megabytes. The first commercially available hard disk drives made to fit popular home PCs were 5MB in size.
These days, a modern smartphone is likely to hold 32 or 64GB of data – that’s around 12,800 times the capacity of those early hard disk drives.
Now in the age of terabyte, we are heading into the age of petabyte or exobyte.
A petabyte (pb) is (usually*) 1,000 terabytes.
Taking into account the speed at which we moved from using kilobytes, to megabytes, to gigabytes, as our standard unit of measurement of personal storage capacity, we could expect to have a petabyte of storage in our homes within perhaps 10 to 20 years.
By Conviction InfoTech
These days, a modern smartphone is likely to hold 32 or 64GB of data – that’s around 12,800 times the capacity of those early hard disk drives.
Now in the age of terabyte, we are heading into the age of petabyte or exobyte.
A petabyte (pb) is (usually*) 1,000 terabytes.
Taking into account the speed at which we moved from using kilobytes, to megabytes, to gigabytes, as our standard unit of measurement of personal storage capacity, we could expect to have a petabyte of storage in our homes within perhaps 10 to 20 years.
By Conviction InfoTech
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