The Need for Digital Space

Hard drive sizes have got to pick up the pace. For several years, I used to think that it would be impossible to fill my 60GB drive. Now that I have a daughter, I’m wishing I could get several Terabytes of data on a single drive. I’m taking many more photos then I have ever taken and I’m even shooting short movies. I’m also playing around with archiving DVD’s so I can access them from a media center whenever I want. Sure I can string together several 500GB or 700GB drives but buying separate drives gets expensive real fast. I’m also using a D-Link NAS for it’s Gigabit speeds and data throughput but it only holds 2 drives. I don’t need a NAS farm and I don’t want to invest in a file server. What I need is a huge drive, 2 to 4 TB, at a reasonable price to put in my NAS. This would a least get me through the next several years even if I’m archiving some high-def content.

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