How big is 8 GigaBytes
Jun 12th 2008, 8:27 pm
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Re: How big is 8 GigaBytes
The Oh says he cant help you with terradactyl on yer zx thingy majig but he has got manic miner!!!! apprently you fossils know about these things!
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Why I ought to wheel myself round there and give you a piece of my mind
Jun 12th 2008, 8:37 pm
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Jun 12th 2008, 8:52 pm
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Re: How big is 8 GigaBytes
Physically I mean, what size would you expect an 8 gigabyte memory chip to be. Bearing in mind 8 gigabytes is enough to hold about 12 or 13 dvds on it. And enough to hold a couple of 100,000 books.
I ordered one for my phone, once I discovered I could download tv content onto my phone from the internet. I couldn't believe they could cram 8 GB into a phone
So really how big do you think the chip is? I just received it.
(obviously I didn't post this on 'The Lab' because 100 geeks would know the answer!)
JTL
I ordered one for my phone, once I discovered I could download tv content onto my phone from the internet. I couldn't believe they could cram 8 GB into a phone
So really how big do you think the chip is? I just received it.
(obviously I didn't post this on 'The Lab' because 100 geeks would know the answer!)
JTL
Jun 12th 2008, 9:58 pm
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I remember when everyone was raging about the 2G Barracuda.
Now I've got about 1T of disk storage on my home PCs.
Now I've got about 1T of disk storage on my home PCs.
Jun 13th 2008, 11:40 am
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Re: How big is 8 GigaBytes
Samsung announced a 64 GB SD Card about three weeks ago, haven't seen one or the price yet.
The following is an IBM 5 Mbyte hard drive from about 40 years ago, the cost was in millions.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22.../harddrive.jpg
The following is an IBM 5 Mbyte hard drive from about 40 years ago, the cost was in millions.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22.../harddrive.jpg
About the size of your small finger nail, and the thickness of 2 sheets of paper.
I must be getting old cos I was seriously stunned to see this little speck of plastic which is hardly big enough to write the letters 8GB on, and it stores 8 GB
.They even have to supply an adaptor, to make it BIG enough to fit my phone.
Why can't they stick 50 of these tiny things in a PC and get rid of hard drives?
JTL
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Jun 13th 2008, 12:04 pm
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Re: How big is 8 GigaBytes
Just a thought:
In 1993 I bought my first IBM compatible PC with a whopping 4Megabytes of memory. When I opened it up, it had 4 1 Megabyte memory chips each about the size you would expect, i.e. about 2cm long 1cm wide and 0.5cm thick.
Now fifteen years later, a sliver of plastic, less than 100th that size holds over 8000 times more data.
So if you do the maths, memory chip design has improved by 800,000% in 15 years.
Forget Moores Law, thats f'ing unbelievable.
JTL
In 1993 I bought my first IBM compatible PC with a whopping 4Megabytes of memory. When I opened it up, it had 4 1 Megabyte memory chips each about the size you would expect, i.e. about 2cm long 1cm wide and 0.5cm thick.
Now fifteen years later, a sliver of plastic, less than 100th that size holds over 8000 times more data.
So if you do the maths, memory chip design has improved by 800,000% in 15 years.
Forget Moores Law, thats f'ing unbelievable.
JTL
Jun 13th 2008, 12:27 pm
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Re: How big is 8 GigaBytes
Alright its this big:
About the size of your small finger nail, and the thickness of 2 sheets of paper.
I must be getting old cos I was seriously stunned to see this little speck of plastic which is hardly big enough to write the letters 8GB on, and it stores 8 GB.
They even have to supply an adaptor, to make it BIG enough to fit my phone.
Why can't they stick 50 of these tiny things in a PC and get rid of hard drives?
JTL
About the size of your small finger nail, and the thickness of 2 sheets of paper.
I must be getting old cos I was seriously stunned to see this little speck of plastic which is hardly big enough to write the letters 8GB on, and it stores 8 GB
.They even have to supply an adaptor, to make it BIG enough to fit my phone.
Why can't they stick 50 of these tiny things in a PC and get rid of hard drives?
JTL
Jun 13th 2008, 12:31 pm
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2) Still more expensive per GB than hard disks.
'Solid state' [ie memory chips] disk storage is available now and expensive, but the price of that is going to come crashing down over time.
Thus endeth the geek lesson !
p.s. I've got a complete GPS receiver in my electronics 'bit box' that is SMALLER than a stamp in size.
Jun 13th 2008, 12:49 pm
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Re: How big is 8 GigaBytes
1) MMC cards transfer data WAY slower than hard disks.
2) Still more expensive per GB than hard disks.
'Solid state' [ie memory chips] disk storage is available now and expensive, but the price of that is going to come crashing down over time.
Thus endeth the geek lesson !
p.s. I've got a complete GPS receiver in my electronics 'bit box' that is SMALLER than a stamp in size.
2) Still more expensive per GB than hard disks.
'Solid state' [ie memory chips] disk storage is available now and expensive, but the price of that is going to come crashing down over time.
Thus endeth the geek lesson !
p.s. I've got a complete GPS receiver in my electronics 'bit box' that is SMALLER than a stamp in size.
just a quicky guys whats the size of a normal film in Gig?
Jun 13th 2008, 2:12 pm
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Of course, if you compress it using mpeg4 or similar compression, you could fit it into 1 Gb. The quality would drop slightly, but not 3 times as much.
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Jun 13th 2008, 2:18 pm
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But if you were to compress it to mpeg4 would it still be watchable on a dvd player?
Jun 13th 2008, 2:36 pm
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Another popular format is Divx. I'm realy impressed with it, the quality is almost perfect.
(and for those geeks, yes I know is just an avi wrapping format)
On a side note, I download ABC programmes to my PC, they are about 50 MB downloads for a 30 minute programme. I then convert them to 3gp format, which makes them 5MB size, and then copy them to my phone, so I can watch them on the train... and freak out other passengers that see I'm watching last nights tv on an ancient mobile phone! (hence the 8Gb card for the phone thread)
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Jun 13th 2008, 2:39 pm
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I am off to bed right now but will PM you moro asking more tech stuff.
Cheers mate.
KOH.
Cheers mate.
KOH.