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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Ipod? Upod? Everybody Pod Pod.. |
| Date | Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:03:16 -0400 |
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The point was about how capacity increases and cost of storage decreases
over time. My first hard drive had 50 MEGS of storage.
6 years ago a computer with a 4 gig hard drive was a monster. My next one
will probably have 160 gigs (I'm looking now). At that rate, in 6 more
years computers would have 6400 gigs of hard drive space.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <flamingo@theworld.com>
> At 12:08 AM 7/12/2004 -0400, Josh Chasin wrote:
> >Your friend makes a compelling case.
>
> Does he? I ran some numbers, and I'm not sure it washes. Experience and
> intuition has led me to figure that the average pop song is a little over
> three and a half minutes long. I've got a 3:34 WAV file open here on my
> desktop ("Play My Song" by Redd Kross, something of a personal theme
song),
> which I note is 36,917 kilobytes as an uncompressed WAV of medium-high
> quality. There are 1,048,576 kilobytes in a gigabyte, which means that
28.4
> copies of this WAV file could fit in a single gigabyte. There's a total
of
> about 10,000 LPs and CDs in this house including the stuff that's in deep
> storage downstairs. Assuming 12 songs per album, that requires a minimum
> of 4224.815 gigabytes of hard disk space (in other words, 52.81 times
> bigger than the fairly spacious 80GB internal hard drive in this Gateway)
> for the WAV files ALONE! Factor in room for File Allocation Tables, the
> programs necessary to play, edit and otherwise futz with the files, and,
oh
> yes, the MP3 of each of these 120,000 songs...you know, I think it's
> cheaper just to buy some custom shelves for the CDs and LPs.
>
> S
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