game, game. repeat. » capacity http://ggr.com if Scott Bonds had a home on the interwebs, this would be it Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:59:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How To Predict The Future Using Excel http://ggr.com/how-to-predict-the-future-using-excel.html http://ggr.com/how-to-predict-the-future-using-excel.html#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:35:01 +0000 Scott Bonds http://ggr.com/?p=372 Picture 3

I’m going to run out of hard drive space at some point.  I’ve got 1.5TB drives in my Drobo right now, I wonder when the 3TB drives will come out so I can just upgrade them in place for double the capacity…

First I looked up when each of the last several capacity jumps were announced.  Google news did the trick: 500MB in 2005, 1TB in 2007, 1.5TB in 2008, 2TB in 2009.

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Then I plugged my data into Excel and used the ‘trend’ formula.

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Voila.  3TB is coming out September 3rd, 2012.  And that’s about what IDC said.

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