Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Laptop Storage

Laptop Storage Perspective

We live in a digital world where storage of digital information is becoming very inportant. Our laptops have hard drives that have increased in storage capacity to 80 gigabytes. This may seem large but compare it to the information in a recent Washington Technology article entitled Long live e-records! by Alice Lipowicz, July 5, 2005.

"Forget gigabytes or even terabytes. The National Archives and
Records Administration's creation of a permanent online archive of its
electronic records is one of the few projects anywhere in which data is measured
by the petabyte - a quadrillion bytes..."
How big is a petabyte? One petabyte is equivalent to:
  • 250 billion pages of text
  • 20 million four drawer filing cabinets
  • 500 million high density floppy disks
  • 83,000 digitally stored, feature length movies
  • 1.7 million CD-ROMs of information

While the petabyte is beyond todays storage concepts for most of us, terabyte drives are being discussed for desktop machines and servers. Laptops may well not be far behind.

I encourage use of external portable storage (not in the terabyte range) for your laptop. Please visit our www.writerslaptop.com web site for some very portable storage options for your laptop computer.

H. Court Young
info@tmcco.com

posted by H. Court Young @ 3:55 PM

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