How much storage space do you want???

I have a 20 gig hard drive on my 2 year old computer and its still mostly empty.

May 2004 Forbs :

"In a keynote speech to the [recent World Wide Web conference in New York],
Microsoft's head of research Rick Rashid described what consumers might do
with a terabyte of data storage that costs around $1,000, and is capable of
holding more than 1 trillion bytes of computer data.

What's fascinating to note is that we can, just three months later, ALREADY purchase Rashid's terabyte of storage for LESS than his "$1,000." As we recently found out www.theharrowgroup.com/articles/20040510/20040510.htm#_Toc71429047),
a terabyte of storage can already be yours for $840 or less!

So now instead of not filling up much of a 20 gig drive, I'll be able to have 1,000 gigs (terabyte) with the same data or here is what we may be able to expect in 5 years.

Because if patents owned by the president of Colossal Storage Corporation,
Michael E. Thomas, pan out, we may have not one, but 100 terabytes (that's 100
TERAbytes!, or ten-thousand gigabytes!) on a $45 removable 3.5-inch disk! The
drive will cost about $650. In five years.

Ok, who is saying were likely to have so much storage space that even Bill Clinton will finish his speech before he can fill the hard drive (see the 1988 Democratic Convention where Clinton almost sunk his chance to be President before the race even started)? Well Jeff Harrow at the Harrow Report is one. His news letter has been a pretty good heads up on storage and computer power at least for non-science folks. He takes some pretty cutting edge technology stuff and writes it in a way that even for folks with out a hard science degree (like me) can understand what's going on in the lab.

I'm not sure what I would do with all the storage space that is likely to becoming down the pipeline, but with the explosion of phone camera's, PDA camera's and likely camera's in car and everywhere else, we are going to be a very watched world. I can just see it now, we will have cameras recording where we are going, as well as looking out the sides and rear so in an accident, there will be a video recording of what was happening and who is at fault.