Storage Wars: How Much Can Your Data Device Hold?

STORAGE WARS: HOW MUCH DATA DEVICE CAN YOUR HOLD? The very first computer with built-in memory, nicknamed Baby, was built in 1948 and had a memory capable of holding just 32 words. Now on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, Baby measures in at 17 feet long and 7.4 feet tall! Here, we have a look at how much data the most common USB memory devices can hold. 2GB 3.5 Hours of MPEG 4 Video - Enough for the entirety of Titanic .. 385 MP3 FILES Capable of holding the whole discography of The Beatles 385,000 Artamène Microsoft Word Pages Cyrus the Great - Easily fitting the longest novel ever written: Artamène/Cyrus the Great by Georges de Scudéry 1,925 Photos Two photos of every type of dinosaur to have existed 4GB 770 MP3 Files Every Bob Dylan song (just) 7 Hours 3,850 Photos - A portrait for every resident of the of MPEG 4 Video - The entire Sharknado trilogy Falkland Islands 8GB nnr 1,540 MP3 Files . - Every song from the Official Top 40 every week for a year 14 Hours 7,700 Photos - Every photo from Kim Kardashian's of MPEG 4 Video - The whole Lord of the Rings trilogy - Extended Version! official Instagram account Qaalaa 16GB 28 Hours 3,080 MP3 Files – Every song from Now That's What I Call Music Volume 1-80 of MPEG 4 Video - All eight Harry Potter films 15,400 Photos – A photo of every single Pablo Picasso painting and design (13,500!) ever 6,160 MP3 Files 32GB - 0.025% of the entire iTunes library 56 Hours of MPEG 4 Video – Every James Bond film (including Spectre) 30,800 Photos - A portrait for every person on Gibraltar The Evolution of Data Storage The devices we use to store and share data have evolved dramatically over the years. 1948 Here we have a look at the different devices introduced since the 1940s. Baby, the first computer with built-in memory, was built 1956 The Hard Disk was 1963 introduced to the Philips introduced the world's first market Tape Cassette 1971 The 8" Floppy Disk was created by IBM 1976 Allan Shugart improved the Floppy Disk, reducing the size to 5.25" 1980 Sony developed the Compact Disc 1981 Floppy disks continued to shrink – 1984 with the 3.5" disk Compact Disc technology was improved, and the CD-ROM was developed entering the market 1992 Although MiniDiscs had a brief flirtation with popularity in the 1995 DVD VIDEO Still popular today, DVDS entered the market the late 90s, they were first introduced in '92 same year as the original Toy Story 1997 1999 Online storage was The USB Flash Drive was named Cloud Computing by Ramnath Chellappa developed, offering increased storage in a smaller device 2000 The Secure Digital (SD) card 2003 BlurayDisc was introduced to the market Improving picture and sound quality, Blu-Ray discs were developed as an alternative to DVDS Leighmans Promotional Business Gifts stock a huge selection of promotional products, including cutting-edge data storage devices. (Leighmans.com Promotional Business Gifts Leighmans.com – 0800 169 0898 Sources: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6013/The-Manchester-Baby-the-world-s-first-stored-program-computer-ran-its-first- program/ http://cfgearblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/how-much-data-can-usb-flash-drive-hold_5.html http://www.imdb.com/ http://www.beatlesbible.com/discography/united-kingdom/ http://www.falklands.gov.fk/our-people/ https://instagram.com/ http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/books/the-10-longest-novels-ever-written https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/02/06iTunes-Store-Sets-New-Record-with-25-Billion-Songs-Sold.html http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-prolific-painter/ http://www.zetta.net/history-of-computer-storagel O O O @ @ @ @ @ O O @ @ @ © © @ © 口