Ok, so I’m cruzing Digg.com just minding my own business when wham!!!! a story slaps me. Seagate is announcing a 750 gig hard drive. Good lord, thats about 567,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
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text documents (actual number may vary)
can you imagine that!

ok i grabbed the digg.com article link
here it is

http://digg.com/hardware/Seagate_Announces_750GB_Hard_Drives

You know, if we had spent all of our development time and money on compression algorithms, we could probably subsist on 40 GB drives.

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Most are stuck with mediocre ZIP which is using a dictionary based algorithm which replaces strings of letters with a pointer+length, and Huffman which translates more common letters to fewer bits and vice versa.

The best in the world compression software use prediction by partial matching (PPM) or Burrows & Wheeler transform (BWT), they both use prediction usually together with a superior arithmetic coding algorithm instead of Huffman trees. StuffitX is one such application.

Movies and images are usually compressed unless you like BMP (which sometimes may use runlength compression which works badly most of the time). So the only files I’d like to see more commonly compressed are text and everything in the network (which I’d bet is mostly text, like HTML and so on).

I lost the slashdot.org link but there should be a 10-20% improvement in non-video compression that’s has a chance.

As far as 750gb, I’m in because the price is good.  500 or so.  But I want Apple to first make DVD -> hard drive/iTunes software.

Mac Fan flashes back to 1990…

“Good Lord, a 100 meg hard drive!!! Oh my God!!!”

Liam - 30 April 2006 04:48 PM

You know, if we had spent all of our development time and money on compression algorithms, we could probably subsist on 40 GB drives.

I have over 400 GB of digital media on my drives and another 2 TB on optical media. I’d certainly love to have all that on a 40 GB drive.