The legendary personal petabytes are on the way. P2P reports that Colossal Storage’s Michael Thomas has new technology that will allow the cost of a petabyte to drop to under $800 per. Thomas predicts, among other things, that this advance would spell the end of compressed data.
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There is also the inevitable slashdot thread on the “PP”, where the piranhas do a fine job picking the bones of this one clean. Personal favourite quote from the P2P article:
Hmmm. Maybe this odd bit of physics by some accident explains why there can’t be a personal transportable petabyte.
In a coincidence, a veteran journalist sent me a link with this note “In 1954, scientists at the RAND corporation built a model to show what a home computer would look like in 50 years
As Snopes (and others) explains, it is really a great entry to a fark.com photoshop contest. Fooled Scott McNealy back in 2004 though (via CNet).