Abstract :
Three events led me in the direction of storage recently: a trip to school to collect an Asus Eee PC; finding that our entire photograph and record collections fit on an iPod; and archiving customer files. The common theme: estimating how much data storage you need. Seems that no home, hard-drive, or data centre is ever `big enough??, and the more you have, the more it costs you ?? in time, in space, and in money. It also seems that digital data will always proliferate to silt up the available gigabitage. At any rate, does more `space?? actually help ?? or just throw up a different set of problems?
