Differences between version 18 and previous revision of HardDisk.
Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 18 | Last edited on Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:30:41 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 17 | Last edited on Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:27:11 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
The piece of [Hardware] that stores your programs and data "permanently" - ie after the power goes off. You probably know what a hard disk is.
-Hard drives used to have capacity measured in MegaByte~s -- these days it's in GigaByte~s.
+Hard drives used to have capacity measured in MegaByte~s -- these days it's in GigaByte~s (but also see the MebiByte and GibiByte pages)
.
A typical cheap [IDE] hard disk drive these days might cost around NZ$200 for 40-60 GibiByte~s of data. [SCSI] drives are typically slightly more expensive.
The standard method of measuring large amounts of data (in the mainstream media) appears to be ''[LibraryOfCongress|LOC]'' x ''n''.
