The story about storage..!!

I was just going through the prices of some of the storage media recently and I was surprised to see the way the prices of these things have gone down. A 2gb flash drive from kingston costs Rs. 700 which is around $10.

The way people store things has vastly changed over the years. I remember my first PC (Intel MMX 166Mhz,16 MB EDO RAM, 2GB Hard drive) which had such a limited storage capacity, way back in 1997 and it  never felt short. But in a span of a decade , the requirements and the availability has vastly changed. With everything, right from music to movies to photos to books going digital, there has been a constant need to upgrade the currently available storage space.

Not only the storage requirements, but the form factor of hard drives has also seen a major change. Right from being inside the box to Network Attached Storage(NAS), it has been through a pretty long path. The hard drives were very much limited to sitting inside the CPU for a very long time. Then with the arrival of the USB, things changed. The beauty of the  USB was that it accepted most of the devices ranging from printers to scanners to disks. Then came the external hard disks and external casings which use the USB and are of great ease to use.

Now, NAS seems to be the hot thing around. Well , it indeed is a great appliance for those having more than 1 computers and there is a need to share the data. The NAS enclosures are available for less than $100 without the disk, of course. But I think its a great way to store data on a network.