Those are good points and legitimate use cases. But if they have small hard drives, how did the guy in the story recover "tens of thousands of documents" from 3

Those are good points and legitimate use cases. But if they have small hard drives, how did the guy in the story recover "tens of thousands of documents" from 3 copiers? Why would a copier need to be able to store that many pages? I mean, OK, hard drives are cheap, so maybe copier manufacturers just said "eh, even if they run huge jobs, they can come back and repeat them later. Only costs us a couple more bucks." But dang - they gotta address this. EDIT: Hmmmm. I guess I just forgot how freaking big hard drives ARE these days. Discussion below about how a "small" 20GB drive could store so many documents at such-and-such size... oh yeah. It's startling to remember how gigantic 20GB sounded 10 years ago.