By Cloud Computing SpunjePublished: December 22, 2009Posted in: Business Intelligence, Case Studies & Tutorials, Database, Hosting, Opinions & Explanations, StorageTags: 
I realize I’m dating myself, but the first computer I ever owned didn’t have a hard drive. It had two drive bays that held 5.25 inch floppies. Later, I bought a then revolutionary machine, an 8086 I think, with a 40 MB hard drive, and I wondered how anyone could ever fill it up. And the last time I moved, I discovered a box filled with floppies and 250 MB Zip drives.
It’s obvious that none of those devices are nearly large enough to satisfy our appetite for digital music, photos, videos, presentations and the like. But there’s a less obvious issue that bothers me a lot. If that old box contained a floppy or a Zip with something I needed, I’d be altogether old of luck. Where would I find a drive that would accommodate the media, particularly the cardboard-packaged 5.25 disks — even if they hadn’t deteriorated too much to be read?
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142248/Why_the_Cloud_Should_Have_Your_Back_Up?taxonomyId=
You get the idea. No matter how disciplined we are about backing up our digital stuff, our efforts will be useless when the media becomes obsolete.
I realize I’m dating myself, but the first computer I ever owned didn’t have a hard drive. It had two drive bays that held 5.25 inch floppies. Later, I bought a then revolutionary machine, an 8086 I think, with a 40 MB hard drive, and I wondered how anyone could ever fill it up. And the last time I moved, I discovered a box filled with floppies and 250 MB Zip drives.
It’s obvious that none of those devices are nearly large enough to satisfy our appetite for digital music, photos, videos, presentations and the like. But there’s a less obvious issue that bothers me a lot. If that old box contained a floppy or a Zip with something I needed, I’d be altogether old of luck. Where would I find a drive that would accommodate the media, particularly the cardboard-packaged 5.25 disks — even if they hadn’t deteriorated too much to be read?
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142248/Why_the_Cloud_Should_Have_Your_Back_Up?taxonomyId=
You get the idea. No matter how disciplined we are about backing up our digital stuff, our efforts will be useless when the media becomes obsolete.
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