I think that depends on the growth of the data people want to store. I don’t think the storage needs of many homes grows faster than about 4GB per year (1000 ph

I think that depends on the growth of the data people want to store. I don’t think the storage needs of many homes grows faster than about 4GB per year (1000 photos or 80 music albums [0]), at least if nobody in that particular home is a video enthusiast or an avid PC gamer. A 160GB SSD or even a 120GB SSD would last such a home many years, probably much longer than the lifetime of the drive. I recently de-cluttered my parents’ PC and can say with authority that their storage needs didn’t grow by more than a gigabyte in the last year. I have the suspicion that many of those 1TB drives they build in cheap PCs these days are mostly empty. [0] Especially photos seem to me to be the one thing that really demands additional storage and that nearly everyone uses. Documents usually only take up a few hundred megabyte.