Why the difference?

in #steemit7 years ago

The big drive has a very low storage ability, more so having a big shape like a lorry.
Compare to the small drive,that have high storage ability, not withstanding it having a small shape like that of a finger.
But I think there is more to this, maybe a difference in the resistor,capacitor,and all the chips.
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The difference is 59 years and Moore's law. Specifically the size of transistors getting much much much smaller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

Also the old drives were spinning disks (that's why they got the name "drives") and recorded information on a magnetic surface, it needed motors and everything. That 128G pen drive is just a chip or two, no moving parts at all.

Back in 1957, 5MB would have be considered a huge amount of storage.

Comparing 1957 to 2017 the drive will be considered has about 128Gb

It would have been considered probably more like a Petabyte. I'm sure it was one of the largest drives made at the time.