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If the trend continues, next year will be the year more than an exabyte of storage will be shipped, reports ENTNews, citing an IDC report.  That's a lot of bits.  8,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them.  Wow.

It seems like only yesterday that I got a TRS-80 with a tape drive, holding who knows how many bytes.  10?  15?  That was the same day I stopped using the TRS-80 because it was no fun whatsoever waiting for that thing to load.  Now I feel that way when using a 5,400 RPM hard drive.  The more things change....