Storage: Regardless of How Much You Have, It Is Never Enough

Kit Eaton at Gizmodo had an interesting post about “How many TBs is Enough”? The author lists that storage devices that he has and says:

“at comes to a grand total of 2010 GB, so around 2 TB. That seems a ridiculous amount,”… “that's 3,195 days worth of music… That seems like plenty, but maybe I'm wrong”

Well, you’re right – it is plenty, but the reason why storage needs will continue to grow is not linked to “how we consume” the file stored, it is linked to our storage habits or the lack of. Storage requirements grow exponentially simply because most people don’t sort the “stuff” that they keep on their drives. It’s the “it might be useful” kind of thinking.

Worse (not really), now people backup more than they used to – thanks to software like Time Machine. In the end, it comes down to “cheap storage”. It takes time (and therefore cost money to sort yout crap out), so if storage is cheap, why would you sort and discard your files? Hence, you’ll keep stashing files and you’ll keep buying more capacity.

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