r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • 17d ago

of a storage unit

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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/Positive_Conflict_26 16d ago edited 16d ago

You can roughly fit 55,000,000 of these in the palm of your hand today. (Talking about 250-300tb ssd drives)

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u/bromoloptaleina 16d ago

You can fit 3.2 million of these on a drive the size of a chewing gum

https://a.co/d/0iWhSXS6

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u/Kid_Vid 16d ago

Is that a scam link?? Not that you are scamming.

I get it is amazon... But $21,000???? For 16tb??

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u/bromoloptaleina 16d ago

It’s the first and only 16tb nvme ssd. HDD are way cheaper but way slower.