Re: Storage media sizes exploding

"don pearce" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:z8qdnfyPpaFHn73VnZ2dnUVZ8vSdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> It always amuses me when the next greatest memory technology is
invented and
> >> the technology 'journalists' say that now we will be able to store 10
> >> billion songs on our 'ipods'.
> >
> > Unfortunately it would take significantly longer than one's lifetime
to
listen
> > to them all even once.
>
> At three minutes a song that is 57,000 years.

Which even at 128kb/s is approx 30,000,000 gigabytes.
I think ipod hard drives are a little short of that at the moment :-)

MrT.