Yahoo! Mail announced it will offer unlimited capacity in May. I still remember friends with a 1MB Hotmail account and how our online life has changed. On the other hand, our basic productivity environment (Office) has not changed significantly since Windows 95, and online offerings (e.g. GoogleDocs) -besides offering the always on advantages- are actually worse.
He also presents a nice timeline of storage evolution:
1997: Yahoo! Mail launches with 4MB of storage SanDisk introduces 2MB flash card for the Canon PowerShot. Compaq announces “high capacity memory upgrades†in four capacities, including 16MB, 32MB, 64MB and 128MB capacities. Caleb introduces the Ultra High Density floppy disk drive that stores up to 144MB on a single disk. The first iPod is still a gleam in someone’s eye. It’s not introduced until 2001 and comes with 5GB of storage. 2004/2005: Yahoo! Mail upgrades in 2004 to 100MB of storage, followed by a jump to 1GB in 2005 Olympus upgrades to 1GB flash memory card. HP announces 160GB storage upgrade for its Media Center PCs. Corsair in 2005 announces a USB flash drive with 4GB of storage. Apple announces the Fifth Generation iPod with 30GB capacity. 2007: Yahoo! Mail announces unlimited email storage SanDisk launches 8GB flash card for photo storage. Alienware introduces a desktop computer with 1 terabyte of storage. Apple currently ships the newest 80GB iPod, launched in 2006 and holds up to 100 hours of video.
[…] The Moore’s law of storage has interesting consequences for the lifestreaming concept (especially of the MyLifeBits variety). The hypothesis is that we’ll have 10TB flash sticks in twenty years (via Jim Rossignol’s blog): 10Tb is an interesting number. That’s a megabit for every second in a year — there are roughly 10 million seconds per year. That’s enough to store a live DivX video stream — compressed a lot relative to a DVD, but the same overall resolution — of everything I look at for a year, including time I spend sleeping, or in the bathroom. […]
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May 16th, 2007