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About 12 years.

12 years ago I bought a new computer with 3GB of hard drive space (yes, just three). Today, the average new computer has about 3GB of RAM. It took 12 years to convert all that disk space to RAM.

If this pattern holds, then by the year 2021 we should have computers with about 500GB of RAM.

Awesome.

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