Storage Has Come a Long Way Baby

I couldn’t guarantee it, but there’s one thing that seems to be getting developed much more rapidly than anything else. Sure Intel and AMD are in a huge race with each other to keep developing faster processors. Game consoles like Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii are always competing with each other to be the next best thing. I think storage space is growing exponentially and with the greatest impact to end-users at an attainable level.

Jason Bean Photo of USB Thumb Drive and Hard Drive

That picture you see (sorry it’s so small) is of an old hard drive. What you can barely see on top of it is a 32MB thumb drive. Now, at the time, which was about 3 years ago, the 32MB drive was your above average USB drive. I can’t remember what I paid for it, but I know a few months after I purchased it there was double that capacity available for less price.

Now, what can really blow your mind is that the giant hard drive it’s sitting on provided less than the 32MB I believe.  Story is now even more relevant to me because of my task recently of collecting and organizing all of my family’s photos. What’s enough space to keep everything together? How long will the current method of storing .jpg’s on a standard hard drive be viable for the technology that’s coming down the road?