[nmcela]

I am 100.0% sure this is what someone has said for 256GB drives, 256MB drives, 256KB drives, and the same person will be saying it for 256YB drives.

[jaggederest]

I clearly remember getting an 80gb drive, circa 2001-2002 I think, and talking with my friends about how impossible it would be to ever fill.

[lesuorac]

The problem is that the size of media has been growing exponentially.

When I keep wondering how my phone is running out of space every time its images / videos. Even when you look at an app that is like 400 MB its not 400 MB of code, its like 350 MB of images and 50 MB of code.

[cainxinth]

I remember being a kid at Babbages at the mall in the 90s and some guy told my friend and I that he just built a system with 8 gigs of storage, and my friend I talked about it endlessly as the coolest thing ever.

[jaclaz]

If it helps, I bought circa 1993 an Apple Powerbook (for at the time an awful amount of money) running System 7, that came with 40, 80 or 120 MB disk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerbook_160

I chose the 80 MB version as the 40 was too little, and the 120 was way too much for non-professional use (impossible to ever fill).

[rbanffy]

While I agree, it's been hard filling up the 2TB drive in my laptop.

My home server has a couple dozen terabytes (on spinning metal) and, with current fill rate, it's predicted it'll need an increase in space only after two of the drives reach retirement according to SMART. It hosts multiple development VMs and stores backups for all computers in the house.

Another aspect is that the total write lifetime is a multiple of the drive capacity. You can treat a 256TB drive as a very durable 16TB drive, able to last 16 times more writes than the 16TB one.

[FirmwareBurner]

>While I agree, it's been hard filling up the 2TB drive in my laptop.

Then you're defiantly not torrenting enough "definitely legit" content as I am. Once you sail the dark seas it piles up quick. Or maybe I have ADHD.

[xbkingx]

Blu-rays can take up 25gb each, so just a decent collection of those could easily consume most of one of these drives. If you want to do basic model tuning in stable diffusion, each model variation can take 7gb. This level of storage would mean you could almost setup a versioning system for those. And finally, any work with uncompressed data, which can just be easier in general, could benefit from it.

[dbg31415]

Oh look at Mr. “I pay legitimate streaming services for all my tv shows and movies” over there. (=

I have a 12 TB NAS that is 99% full at the moment. Should I delete movies I may want to watch later, knowing full well they aren’t easily available on the streaming services I pay for? Ha.

It fills fast!

[ipaddr]

Once you start saving media or playing with ai models space goes quickly.

[KnobbleMcKnees]

>256YB drives

Ah yes, Yagnibytes.

[all2]

Y'otta look that one up.

[bguebert]

"640K ought to be enough for anybody"

[amelius]

Was this the same person who said that 640KB ought to be enough for anybody?

[flskafdslaf]

They are probably still right. How much of the computing resources we all now have access to do we actually need?

[dabluecaboose]

I vividly remember seeing a 5TB drive at Fry's Electronics sometime around 2010-2013 and thinking to my self "Who in gods name would ever need that much space"

I now have 24 terabytes in my NAS

[twerkmonsta]

But practically don’t you reach a threshold where storing that much data on one drive makes it a bottleneck and safety risk until the speed of the surrounding systems catch up?