{"id":457,"date":"2008-05-16T16:17:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/welcome-to-pitstop-research\/research-charts-storage\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T09:41:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:41:26","slug":"research-charts-storage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/research-charts-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/disk.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n[m_include_file filepath=&#8221;\/research.php&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Although hard drives are not made from silicon, amazingly enough, the disk manufacturers appear to be following Moore&#8217;s law. Based on our research and industry trends, storage capacities double every two years, same as processors. The hard drive industry has consistently discovered new technologies to cram more information on a single 5.25&#8243; platter.<\/p>\n<p>Having larger hard drives has benefited all of us as our PC&#8217;s expand into music and video. Roll over any chart for a more detailed analysis of the information. Also, the information is updated monthly, so come back often to see how the world of processors is evolving.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: black; text-align: center; font-style: italic;\">Median Disk Capacity Surpasses 700GB<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_hdd_hddrange_all.php\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('Median Disk Capacity Surpasses 700GB.  Due to extreme competition between disk manufacturers, storage capacities grow annually at enormous rates.  Having larger hard drives, have enabled us to continue to expand the use of our PC\\'s to include video and music.');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: black; text-align: center; font-style: italic;\">Desktop Storage Capacities Almost 2X those of Portables<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_hdd_avghdd_pctype.php\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('Desktop Storage Capacities Almost 2X those of Portables. Due to the smaller form factor hard drives placed in portables, and that desktops can accommodate more than one hard drive, desktops blow away portables in storage capacity.');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: black; text-align: center; font-style: italic;\">Business and Home Hard Drive Size Have Converged<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_hdd_avghdd_bushome.php\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('Business and Home Hard Drive Size Have Converged. Hard Drive size for both home and business continue to grow.  The gap between them has closed.');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: black; text-align: center; font-style: italic;\">AUS\/NZ and Canada Tie for Most Disk Storage<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_hdd_avghdd_region.php\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('AUS\/NZ and Canada Tie for Most Disk Storage. Canada, Australia and New Zealand tied in a virtual dead heat for the prize of biggest disk.  Europe came in third place in the competition.  Honorable mention goes to the Americans for placing a distant fourth.');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: black; text-align: center; font-style: italic;\">Men Have Big Disks<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_hdd_avghdd_gender.php\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('Men Have Big Disks. The biggest difference between the sexes is in disk space with men having a whopping 58% more storage than ladies.  As of this writing, that represents close to a 90GB differences between guys and girls.  What could men be doing with all that extra storage?  Hmmm.  ');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\"><\/h2>\n<p><!--  SSD charts --><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: black; text-align: center; font-style: italic;\">SSD Popularity<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_ssd_ssdhdd_pctype.php\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('SSD Drives are Slowly Gaining Popularity. SSD drives are gradually growing in popularity.  The high cost of these drives is likely the primary reason for the slow ramp of acceptance.');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\"><\/h2>\n<h2 <img=\"\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_ssd_ssdhdd_os.php\" alt=\"\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_ssd_ssdhdd_location.php\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_ssd_ssdhdd_gender.php\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/rc_ssd_ssdhdd_region.php\" alt=\"\"><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/hddrangeall.php\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/tothddpctype.php\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/tothddloc.php\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/tothddregion.php\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/tothddgender.php\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66012,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-457","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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