Backblaze says that they are storing more than an Exabyte of data

[Rolando]

I recall reading somewhere that Google or Amazon was using heat exchangers to more excess heat to a local swimming pool

[davester]

Most of that stuff is utterly worthless garbage that will never be accessed. Online backup is the ultimate hoarder's dream. Never throw anything away, no matter how insignificant.

[GGD]

davester wrote:
Most of that stuff is utterly worthless garbage that will never be accessed. Online backup is the ultimate hoarder's dream. Never throw anything away, no matter how insignificant.

Remember the days when a box of 10 800K floppies held multiple copies all of your stuff, that's 8MB, about the size of a single out of focus photo of a cat that one of your relatives will email you.

[MartyStickle]

GGD wrote:
[quote=davester]
Most of that stuff is utterly worthless garbage that will never be accessed. Online backup is the ultimate hoarder's dream. Never throw anything away, no matter how insignificant.

Remember the days when a box of 10 800K floppies held multiple copies all of your stuff, that's 8MB, about the size of a single out of focus photo of a cat that one of your relatives will email you.
I seem to remember 140k 5 1//4in floppies. You got a paper punch and punched out the other side of the disk so you could convert a single sided floppy to a double sided one. Almost 300 k of data. What more could you want?

OK, I’m really showing my age..

[N-OS X-tasy!]

GGD wrote:
[quote=davester]
Most of that stuff is utterly worthless garbage that will never be accessed. Online backup is the ultimate hoarder's dream. Never throw anything away, no matter how insignificant.

Remember the days when a box of 10 800K floppies held multiple copies all of your stuff, that's 8MB, about the size of a single out of focus photo of a cat that one of your relatives will email you.
Back when most Word and Excel file sizes could be measured in the tens of KBs.

[AllGold]

GGD wrote:
[quote=davester]
Most of that stuff is utterly worthless garbage that will never be accessed. Online backup is the ultimate hoarder's dream. Never throw anything away, no matter how insignificant.

Remember the days when a box of 10 800K floppies held multiple copies all of your stuff, that's 8MB, about the size of a single out of focus photo of a cat that one of your relatives will email you.
LOL. Yeah, no such thing as digital photos back then, let alone 4K video.