Evolution of Storage

Storage is continuing to change quickly, soon the idea of any moving parts for having to read media will be archaic.

Solid-state_drive article from wikipedia. SSD is currently more expensive than hard drives, but much faster.

Article explaining the orders of magnitude in relation to data

Prefixes for bit and byte multiples
Decimal Value SI 1000 k kilo 10002 M mega 10003 G giga 10004 T tera 10005 P peta 10006 E exa 10007 Z zetta 10008 Y yotta	Binary Value IEC JEDEC 1024 Ki kibi K kilo 10242 Mi mebi M mega 10243 Gi gibi G giga 10244 Ti tebi 10245 Pi pebi 10246 Ei exbi 10247 Zi zebi 10248 Yi yobi

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