As the paper trail has evolved into the digital highway, computer storage capacity has also increased. Today's computer users can store mountains of information that would have previously required a roomful of equipment.
Consider that in 1980, it took a fleet of refrigerator-sized devices to store 60 gigabytes of information. By 1990, one small refrigerator-sized storage device could suffice. Today, two small disk drives inside a PC can store 60 gigabytes, and by 2010, it's likely a disk drive half the size of a credit card will be capable of storing that much information.
Technology professionals who specialize in data storage are the unsung heroes of the digital age. Creating storage systems that can keep pace with the booming volume of digital information is a never-ending challenge and necessity.
"It doesn't matter how much capacity we can provide, the world keeps asking for more," says Horacio M
