Portal:Storage/Did you know
From Wikibon
...that perhaps as much as 10 exabytes of information will be created in 2006 on print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media.
...that 1,000 exabytes equals 1 zettabyte and that 1,000 zettabytes equals 1 yottabyte?
...that a googol is a number equal to a 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed 10100? This concept was introduced by U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-1955).
...that in September 1956, IBM announced the first commercial disk drive, the RAMAC 305, with 5MB of capacity on fifty 24-inch diameter platters. The RAMAC 305 was priced at $7,800 per megabyte.
