Mark,
Interesting. Where do you store reports, etc. ? Local hard drive?, Floppy?, Zip?. How often do you actually refer or search your local hard drive for saved files? When was the last time you "house cleaned" your hard drive? Do you really refer to saved reports (information) or do you think you might and the easy thing to do is save them (because storage is cheap)? When was the last time you even thought about data compression?
is your music taste mainstream, avant garde, pop, classical, in or out of copyright protection?
Put simply, given the search functions available on the Internet (or your local intranet), do you really believe that your local hard drive holds some information not available on the world wide web? Does very sensitive personal information belong on your connected local hard drive where it is vulnerable? If sensitive information does not belong on a local connected hard drive and if the vast majority of all necessary information (data, music, whatever) is available on "the network", then what does need to stay resident on the local hard drive?
Note: Some of these are "loaded" questions, some aren't. Like most, I simply don't know where the future lies for the sector.
<< because storage is cheap...>> Access is cheaper, in many cases, free.
Paul |
