The History of Computer Storage

How did computer storage evolve from super-old-school punch cards to the multi-terabyte SSDs of today?

[heartfthedragn]

As a Bulgarian, I don't know where did you get that picture at 4:00, but it made me giggle.
The largest disk, the one that he is talking about, says "Сделано в Болгарии", which means "Made in Bulgaria".
'ИЗОТ' is the name of the factory, where they used to make them and as it happens, it was in my home town.
In the 80s this factory was one of the biggest and most modern computer electronics manufacturers in eastern Europe and it supplied the chips and memory modules for much of the Soviet era electronics, including those for the Soviet space agency.
Now it's abandoned, but a lot of the facilities and internal structures were sold out.
I actually have the steel case of one of those massive 80s computers (along with a bunch of 80-100W industrial steel fans for cooling) that I use as a rack in my garage. :D
In my town, these old disks have become something of a collectible, a memory from the past. They're quite rare nowadays, so I was surprised to see them in that photo.

[lukasmurmann]

Every time Luke or Linus say "speaking of..." I think the video is done, and it's sponsor time :-)

[Fabianwew]

do a "history of linus tech tips"

[_Piers_]

In 1988 I bought a 10mb hard disk, at the time that was super impressive.

What is still impressive, is that I tested it a few months ago and it still works!

[slayerwasco]

Fun fact, my dad and uncle were some of those workers that repaired memory bit by bit on those loops if some RAM would fail. Interesting stories

[JJ-siqh]

3:37. When he said: "foundation was laid. Speaking of..." I thought he was going to say "speaking of getting laid..." and then would make a segue into the sponsor.

[EconaelGaming]

"Floppy disks aren't useful anymore". I agree, but tell this to the government :)

[bradval]

Maybe in several years a terabyte would be so small like gigabytes or megabytes or something.

[Angeloandthevacuum]

You forgot to mention that old computers used cassette tapes to store data as well

[D.man]

Would love to see you store your 8k videos in those punch cards

[raniedelfajardo]

1956: Yey IBM finally introduced 5mb of harddrives.
2016: Despite having 15 feet tall, It only held 5mb of data.
2100: Back 2016 when Google span their data center for about a mile but only held hundreds of exabyte. Pathetic

[covalencedust]

His english is so perfect that the auto-generated subtitles didn't make a single mistake! P

[AmaxterPlays]

"Multi TB SSD's of today", yes those things I can TOTALLY afford.

[dacejoy]

It is (for me) extremely hard to imagine that 50MB back in the day were as much as 2TB today.

[caincha]

2:58 - I might be wrong but I think that's how the Apollo's computers were built
3:45 - not a floppy ;)

[Accessless]

I remember when it became a novelty to use a floppy disk. Now I find it a novelty to use a CD.

[luisdanielmesa]

I work for IBM... we've moved from punched cards now.

[cranegamingtv]

Insert floppy disk 1 of to install gta 5

[rahmspinat]

I needed a condensed documentary on this and you delivered 100%! man you guys are good!

[therealAkito]

imagine if our computers was hooked up to a big ass factory looking thing with fucking scrolls and shit getting written with data....and that only had an equivalent amount of 50GB

I would just want to die if that was ever my life...