{"id":8019,"date":"2015-01-20T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2015-01-20T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:59:00","slug":"the-evolution-of-a-terabyte-of-data-1956-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/the-evolution-of-a-terabyte-of-data-1956-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of a terabyte of data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve witnessed a rapid evolution of data storage over the last 50 years &#8211; from clunky 1-tonne behemoth machines that would barely store a&nbsp;5-minute mp3 file in the 1960s to thumbnail-sized micro SD cards with capacities of 512 gigabytes today.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">As the size required to store data has shrunk&nbsp;over the years, the cost of data storage has plummeted. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moore%27s_law\" target=\"_blank\">Moore&rsquo;s Law<\/a>&nbsp;may be observation and prediction rather than science, but it&rsquo;s proved incredibly accurate so far!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In 1956, the&nbsp;very first hard drive manufactured by IBM &#8211;&nbsp;the RAMAC 350 Disk File stored only 5MB&nbsp;of data, weighed a tonne and cost about&nbsp;$160,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Five years&nbsp;later, the RAMAC became obsolete and was replaced by the IBM 1301, which could store 28&nbsp;megabytes of data.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover_-_Evolution_of_a_Terabyte_of_Data_-_7DayShop.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2013, Kingston released the highest capacity USB flash drive to-date: a 1-Terabyte&nbsp;USB Flash Drive&nbsp;called the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3 weighing just 45g. 2014 was even better for data storage; SanDisk released the first 512GB SD Card&nbsp;and hard drive manufacturers; Western Digital introduced the first &#39;helium filled&#39; 10-terabyte desktop hard drive&nbsp;for the consumer market.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7dayshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">7DayShop&rsquo;s<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;Evolution of a Terabyte of Data&#8221; Infographic aims to illustrate how 1-terabyte of data would have been stored over the last six decades, with the highest capacity storage devices and tech available at each period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">There are some really interesting statistics to crunch through on this infographic!<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolution_of_a_Terabyte_of_Data_-_7DayShop_1140px.png\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve witnessed a rapid evolution of data storage over the last 50 years &#8211; from clunky 1-tonne behemoth machines that would barely store a&nbsp;5-minute mp3 file in the 1960s to thumbnail-sized micro SD cards with capacities of 512 gigabytes today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}