According to recent reports, our desire for storage continues to grow by leaps and bounds -- good thing we are storing 0's and 1's (digital data), not physical goods or we would all have to live in castles! (or at least very big houses).
(Look at that big analog storge pile!)
Hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies as well as flash memory providers, such as Samsung, are beefing up the technical capabilities of their products to meet consumers' growing storage needs.
Incredibly, flash memory capacity is doubling about every nine months, according to anaylst firm IDC (as captured by and the Associated Press), which forecasts that hard drive shipments will reach $41.5 billion in 2010.
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Doubling every 9 months! That's a lot! But, I guess years ago programming involved a lot of allocating memory. I remember having to clear out space in memory to run a different process, or having to make code as few lines as possible so the compiled application would be smaller.
All that seems to have been thrown out the window anymore. Costs for memory are so reasonable any more that worries for storage space just isn't high on the list of concerns for developing.
But, every 9 months it doubles... wow. And I thought Moore's Law was aggressive!