Bigger, Cheaper, Everywhere

摘要

I'm fond of saying that hard disk storage is cheaper than dirt. Certainly there is a kernel of truth in such a statement (have you priced dirt lately?). Standard consumer disk storage can now be had for less than a dollar a gigabyte, and the cost continues to fall. While the price drops, available storage sizes increase. Earlier this year LaCie introduced a product called Bigger Disk that provides a terabyte (1000 GB) of storage for $1000.We'll remember 2004 as the year that an individual could reasonably buy a terabyte of disk storage. The technically savvy will quickly point out that disk storage for the consumer market is not the same thing as storage for large enterprises. What works for saving your MP3s may not work quite as well for a bank responsible for saving financial transactions.