What would you do with a 500,000,000,000 Gigabyte hard drive- October 19, 2007 Hitachi recently announced that they will be shipping a 4 terabyte hard drive in 2011. One terabyte hard drives are now available for $320, so it you can expect 4 terabyte drives will be in this same price range within a short number of years. (4 terabytes = 4,000 gigabytes = 4,000,000 megabytes.) Recently one of my friends sent me this link that tracks hard drive pricing over time. In 1956, IBM was selling 5 megabytes for $50,000 which equates to $10,000 per...http://www.cleversafe.org/cs-weblog/2007/10/19/what-would-you-do-with-a-five-hundred-milli... The Cleversafe Idea- October 15, 2007 How did you get the initial idea for Cleversafe is a question I am asked fairly often possibly since I dont have a long career background in data storage systems or in coding algorithms. What lead me to that idea of building a geographically distributed Dispersed Storage grids was that I was looking for a way to store my personal data and I had been reading a lot about the history of cryptography. Prior to Cleversafe, I started a company called MusicNow which was a leading business-to-business.http://www.cleversafe.org/cs-weblog/2007/10/15/the-cleversafe-idea-1 |