Entering the world of terabyte drives

Jul 28, 2009 22:54
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by Jerry Liao, Philippines


With content fast shifting from ordinary text to pictures and videos, one can already expect that the demand for bigger storage devices will be the next call of the day. And, indeed, storage manufacturers are addressing the need, more than what we need actually. From kilobytes to megabytes and gigabytes, we are now seeing storage devices in the terabytes level.

Seagate released its terabyte storage products a couple of months back. Same for Western Digital which recently announced its first 2.5-inch harddisk with 1TB capacity. WD will also use its new 2.5-inch drive to enable 1TB external harddisk drives (HDDs).

My point is this. As content grows more, it's only natural that storage capacity goes bigger as well. But how about the responsibility that comes with it? A bigger capacity drive means more backup, backup and backup. If something happens to the drive, data loss means it's going to be costly to the enterprise or even the individual.

Also, more storage means more data. More data means security should be around the corner. If not, more data can be compromised.

So after terabyte, what next? Petabyte? Exabyte?

God bless!

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Comparing 5 years ago, storage drives with half gig size are luxury.  Today you can easily put in your pocket data storage in gigabytes.