Google will rely on internet-based storage almost entirely for Google Chrome, their OS for netbooks.
Contrary to those that say Google Chrome is ditching the hard drive, in effect Google is providing limitless hard drive storage in the cloud for netbook users. In our ultra-connected world, where things are stored is becoming much less important than how easily it is kept.
By removing the friction of managing content at the user level, Google is making it easier to keep more stuff – just not always in their netbook.
Looks to me like a recipe for another acceleration of growth in content per user.
We’re going to need at lot more disk drives. And big ones.
[…] Data growth – we need a law about this, since it’s got the staying power of #1 and #2. Something like “The volume of data in a system is limited only by the ability to manage it.” Proof points: The internet and a Google data center. […]