I first read Managing Gigabytes seven years ago. It's quite an interesting book on compression and full text searching - there is lots of software that does that now. The weirdest thing is that seven years ago, gigabytes sounded like a large amount of data. These days a terabyte isn't particularly big. How big will my laptop HD be in seven years time?
Of course
clkao on 2006-11-16T15:42:02
A few
yottabytes.. and we are getting there.
Gigabytes don't seem so large anymore
n1vux on 2006-11-20T18:41:09
"That depends what the meaning of 'big' is".
Indeed, folks were amazed at my HP hot-swapable 12GB RAID array back at the Dot.Com. Now I've got a 250MB external drive for backups at home.
We were doing full-text biblio retrieval, with abstracts loaded from multiple 100MB files on tapes. That was big not so very long ago.
