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I don't think that really works. I've personally have handled a 1 million byte hard drive. So, if I want to understand how big a 1 trillion byte hard drive is, should I picture 1 million 1 megabyte hard drives? I've also got some RAM chips that are about 1 gigabyte in size, should I visualize the terabyte hard drive in terms of them?


Sure. That's one of the best ways to visualize what Moore's law actually means in concrete terms. What used to take a room is now in the palm of your hand.

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