What would you store?
Storage gets cheaper all the time. Spindles get cheaper and capacities climb making large storage accessible for companies of all sizes. For IT and users alike, this can mean less limitations and quotas and better virtualization and backup possibilities.
This leads me to wonder about…
Even though this is great news for organizations, what would you keep if your storage was limited to 4Gb? How would you limit and manage use data to ensure that these things were stored properly?
I am curious to know what might become the data that you cannot live without, both organizational for business and personal. Family photos, e-mail, writing and other documents?
But storage is cheap and getting cheaper why do I care?
I guess the curiosity comes from my coming move and huge need to get rid of things. Even though my home data storage has a small physical footprint and fits on my desk, it is far more interesting to think about what might get rid of in terms of data. Maybe that’s the geek in me. Seeing the amount of physical stuff we are getting rid of and the amount we will be moving made me wonder about data.
Maybe if we all thought about the the actual items and data we are keeping (and the number of copies of these items) and what we can, and cannot live without, the efficiency of our storage solutions and optimization of what we have to work with might improve as storage gets cheaper and more efficient in the future.
What would be your most important data? Please take a few minutes and let me know in the comments.
