Storage Trends

May 16, 2008 by lyle in The Pit Blog

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Although hard drives are not made from silicon, amazingly enough, the disk manufacturers appear to be following Moore's law. Based on our research and industry trends, storage capacities double every two years, same as processors. The hard drive industry has consistently discovered new technologies to cram more information on a single 5.25" platter.

Having larger hard drives has benefited all of us as our PC's expand into music and video. Roll over any chart for a more detailed analysis of the information. Also, the information is updated monthly, so come back often to see how the world of processors is evolving.

Median Disk Capacity Surpasses 100GB

Desktop Storage Capacities Over 2X those of Portables

Homes Have Over 30\% More Storage than Business

AUS/NZ and Canada Tie for Most Disk Storage

Men Have Big Disks

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2 Responses to “Storage Trends”

Merlin Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
And as hard drives get bigger so does the amount of code in the programs, Especially for ones like Windows and Java, and the updates are worse, I get updates for Java that are well over 100 megs, one more and it's over a gig total. I remember my first P-1 100Mghz computer it had a 1 Gig hard drive and I thought WOW that's huge, took a week to fill it up. Ok it was used and I'm always a couple of years behind the curve but I think it makes my point. We need to bring back the original Hackers, the ones at MIT,to come back and save us from bloated code. Hacking originally meant hacking at the code to get it as small as possible and still get the task done.
Going Cucku | Global IP Solutions Says:
December 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
[...] consumersâ€™ appetites to fill their hard-drive space with music, videos and photos. According to PC Pitstop Research storage capacity doubles every two years. This appears to be following Mooreâ€™s law. The Median [...]