I just bought a 2 terabyte drive for $55, which is mind boggling to an old salt like me. The need to store enormous amounts of real time data will keep driving

I just bought a 2 terabyte drive for $55, which is mind boggling to an old salt like me. The need to store enormous amounts of real time data will keep driving storage advances. Text and image data may turn out to be a trivial percentage of the overall storage needs in the longer term.