How much storage do you need?

It’s amazing how far storage capacity has grown over the years.

I vividly remember when I first got involved in IT support and IT solutions some 23 years ago that we stored 160k on an 8″ floppy (not that floppy) disk.

Most readers may not even remember floppy disks, it was how we stored information before hard drives were commonly used.

Seagate have now launched a 3 terabyte hard drive which is an absolutely huge amount of storage capacity.

To give some perspective, the animated movie Monsters vs Aliens required around 100 terabytes of storage whilst in production.

Whilst this sounds great, there are other things you need to think of before utilising this much storage like:

• How to archive it
• How to access it
• How to protect it and
• How to effectively use it.

OCD are experts in providing this type of advice, so feel free to contact us for advice if you need to, we’re here to help.

Inc.com talk about it a little more here.

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