FoxNews.com’s Jeremy Kaplan wrote an exciting piece he titled “The Death of the Hard Drive”. The article is largely based on Google’s introduction of the Chrome OS and Chrome OS based notebooks (I mean Netbooks) that have no need for a hard drive. Everything you do will be stored in the Cloud.
C-mon people…are you kidding me? Everything!? For sure some things, but definitely not everything.
Data Storage Consultant Tom Coughlin has stated, “By 2013 total content in an average home could total almost 9 TB. 5 TB of this is commercial content.” 9 Terabytes! and that’s an average household. I don’t know about you, but if I stored 9 Terabytes in the Cloud, I wouldn’t want to know what my monthly storage bill would be, not to mention how frustratingly slow access to my content would be.
Anyway, the article eloquently talks about why we will no longer need hard drives, and that Apple, Google, Amazon, and a whole host of companies have scrapped the hard drive choosing to go with Flash. As I was reading the article, I couldn’t help but question my job security. Oh no, is he right? Is Apple and Google onto something here?
Then I came back to reality much like Jeremy does at the end of his article (if you got to the end) quoting Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD:
“All that data stored in the cloud isn’t on droplets of airborne water… It’s stored on hard drives.”
…and that’s the rest of the story.
image by: Welcome To Reality by Ross Copperman
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