Check out this eyebrow raising infographic.
This thing is packed with stats that would make anyone excited about storage. The moral of this story is that we consumers (users) are creating most of the content, while most of the burden of storing it is up to big enterprise (Google, Facebook, etc in this example).
What if it were up to consumers to store it all? Considering there are 2,095,006,005 internet users worldwide (according to Internet World Stats), if you take 70% of the 880 Billion Gigabytes (880 Exabytes) or 616 Billion Gigabytes, today, each internet user would have to store a mere 294GB of data. That doesn’t sound so bad considering many of us have Terabytes of data at home already.
I then looked at the projections for worldwide data creation in 2020: 35,000 Exabytes. Assuming the 70% user generated figure is the same, and the number of internet users stayed the same (which we know it will not, but for fun…), each consumer/user would have to store 11.69 Terabytes of data.
Now that’s one heck of a home NAS!
Source: Wikibon
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