How Much External Storage Do You Need?

Throughout history, humanity has wrestled with a series of vexing questions: Why are we here? Is there life after death? How will the universe end? Is my external hard drive big enough?

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  1. Interesting read, and yes it is one on the big questions in life :)

    Why would you buy all the storage capacity until 2020 now? Equally certain that you will underestimate your storage need – the prices of hard drives will continue to fall. Buy a 1TB drive today, a good bottle of wine this Friday and a 5TB drive in 2017.

    The total will probably be less than 3TB today

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