What is the maximum amount of storage for a hard drive, flash disk, and CD these days?
Hard drives there was a time when a 1MB (not 1GB) was considered huge and it was its 1 million characters which is a really thick novels worth of program storage, the evolution of the hard drive has seen massive improvements in the data capacity capabilities of hard drives, 10 years ago the average size of a domestic computers hard drive was 8GB, now the smallest hard drive on sale in a computer is around the 80-100GB and that is considered small, with the advent of SATA connectivity allowing faster data access and newer technology of how the data is stored on the disks bigger hard drives are alot cheaper the maximum hard drive storage available at present is 1TB on one platter or disk, the largest storage solution available is 15TB this is 15 x1TB disks stacked in a NAS server and allows for previously unheard of storage size and speed of access as the disk space can be halved or even quartered for RAID and RAID2 configurations, RAID2 takes RAID (two hard drives used as one for faster
