And the point is...?
I found this eye candy on LifeHacker and followed the breadcrumbs back to the source, The University of California, San Diego. It's an interesting study that was funded by AT&T, Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel, LSI, Oracle and Seagate Technology. Seagate. Right.
Anyway, it's a theoretical question that's a bit interesting. I guess Avatar takes up more disk space than Citizen Kane and Citizen Kane takes up more disk space than, say, the novel Gravity's Rainbow. And so on. So do we need more disk? Personally, I'm up to about a terabyte of NAS for my family and that doesn't surprise me at all. But on the other hand, we're rapidly approaching a new paradigm whereby one copy can be cataloged and accessed at anytime by anybody. --Assuming infinite bandwidth.
By the way, I highly recommenced LaCie's NAS. Has performed as expected over four years. A dream.
