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Gigabytes don't seem so large anymore (Score:1)

by n1vux (1492) on 2006.11.20 13:41 (#51782) Homepage Journal

"That depends what the meaning of 'big' is".

Indeed, folks were amazed at my HP hot-swapable 12GB RAID array back at the Dot.Com. Now I've got a 250MB external drive for backups at home.

We were doing full-text biblio retrieval, with abstracts loaded from multiple 100MB files on tapes. That was big not so very long ago.

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