WTF is up with HD manufactures?

[ztirffritz]

Every time that someone says "Who needs X xB of storage in their home/business?" another hard drive screams in agony as it hits its capacity limit. I remember seeing 80Gb drives and thinking NO ONE will EVER fill that. I now have more than 1TB of storage in my home. My point is that while the storage capacity has increased, the size of the files relative to the capacity has not change much relative to the capacity. We're just storing more files, not smaller files. If you lost 10GB of music from CDs that you ripped it would suck to be sure, but that would likely take a weekend or two to reproduce from the original CDs. I have 40GB of music, 5-10 GB of photos, 400+GB of video. That would take months to reproduce what *could* be reproduced, but the photos are unique, and priceless. My time is worth more than the cost of another drive. The photos DEFINITELY are worth more than a drive.

People won't have archives of photos to sort through when they die anymore. It will be sad in a way.