r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • 17d ago

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In 1956, IBM shipped a 5MB hard drive... and it weighed over a ton. Yep, just 5 megabytes required a forklift and a cargo plane. Today, that's not even one iPhone photo.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/Total_Job29 16d ago

2x what it is today. 

Apple just bumped it to 2x the previous amount. That was in place for 6 years. 

So on that basis in 10 years time the base iPhone storage will be 512GB

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u/mrdude05 16d ago

We're nearing the physical limits of how small transistors can get, so the the rate of growth is slowing down. Storage won't change by orders of magnitude over a few years like it did in the past

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 16d ago

Not to mention we're reaching the point of diminishing returns. Video games take forever to develop nowadays, we have cloud capabilities, and the graphical improvements are borderline indistinguishable. 

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u/ChipRockets 16d ago

20 tb with a 1.5 hour battery life