The Taste Blog

With Kamel and Owen, I am working on a paper involving database indexes. We had over a terabyte of space, and yet, in the middle of the production of the paper, we ran out of space. Only a year ago, I thought that one terabyte was large.

So, I ask our technician about getting a new drive. He comes back with a small 500 GB drive. I ask how much they cost, he says “$200.”

This is a new frontier for me. Producing a simple research paper required us to generate more than one terabyte of data….