INFOGRAPHIC : The History of Digital Storage !!!!

[INDRANIL]

he whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day — and that’s only 50 years of progress.Today, as we move further into the cloud, and witness the latest and greatest pocket media devices, we thought it fitting to take a look back at how far we’ve come on our quest to store as much information in as little space as possible.

Here goes a nice infographic -

Hope you like it .

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[Ceyfer √]

Nostalgia, anyone here who used to owned a 2.5Gb HD? Oh, even my very own pendrive has 16GB capacity.

[princeaniket]

thank you Indra..
i have seen few of the development and also the price reduction of them..
have a 500 gb transcend HD and 8 gb Moserbear Pen drive.. with CD, Cassettes....

life was much easier when the human race were using Abacus..

i want to be in a stone age..

[Bearcat]

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane Indra. I do indeed remember most of these advances in technoolgy.

@ ceyfer Yup, in fact I still have an old PC stored in the garage that runs off dual floppy drives!

[hellnoire]

Nostalgia, anyone here who used to owned a 2.5Gb HD? Oh, even my very own pendrive has 16GB capacity.

I remember having 0 hard drive and using just floppies

[Student26]

I remember getting floppy discs for Christmas when I as a child. I got to say that the USB drive is a significant improvement over floppies. The only thing that the floppy was better at were double entendres