Amount of Data Stored: Now in Graph Form
I was curious how much data I’ve had on my computer network over the span of its existence, so I decided to plug a few data points into open office in order to visualize it. This is what I came up with. I started when I got my first personal computer, a monster of a laptop that had dual hard drives, totaling 100GB of storage. I also had a 120GB external hard drive connected to my first Linux server, and then later attached a 160GB internal drive to it as well. Two 500 GB hard drives later I had a server crash, which caused me to lose just over 1TB of data. I jokingly refer to it as “The Great Server Crash of 2007″. Ever since then I always buy hard drives in pairs. One for actual data storage and the other for backup. If it hadn’t been for that crash, the trend line would actually be really accurate.