I CAN REMEMBER THE DAYS when storage capacity was measured in megabytes. Back then, a 20MB hard drive seemed impossible to fill, at least for the first week. But data has a habit of expanding to fill available space, and over the years, file and application footprints have ballooned to keep pace with rising storage capacities. Our propensity for collecting data has grown, as well, perhaps at an even more rapid pace than the size of the files themselves.
Half a Terabyte otta do it! Check out the review at Tech Report.