The size of data which "must" be stored always increases to fill the storage space available.
At the moment, I'm content with 14T drives for personal use, which is about 4x bigger than what I was using just a few years ago.
But if I had 120T, I would just start hoarding every bit of data I could get my hands on. I'm not quite https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ level yet, but I could totally see myself heading in that direction.
And at $DAYJOB we need to store data in the order of magnitude of a petabyte. This also seemed huge just a few years ago, but now feels restrictive. 30x 120T drives to shove into a rack in the data centre would totally be considered if it were possible.
I remember in the 90s I heard someone ask how you could ever fill a 1GB hard drive ...
At the moment, I'm content with 14T drives for personal use, which is about 4x bigger than what I was using just a few years ago.
But if I had 120T, I would just start hoarding every bit of data I could get my hands on. I'm not quite https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ level yet, but I could totally see myself heading in that direction.
And at $DAYJOB we need to store data in the order of magnitude of a petabyte. This also seemed huge just a few years ago, but now feels restrictive. 30x 120T drives to shove into a rack in the data centre would totally be considered if it were possible.
I remember in the 90s I heard someone ask how you could ever fill a 1GB hard drive ...