looking for storage in all the small places thomas m coughlin associates copyright january 2004 over 20 years ago relocating a disk drive with capacity of few megabytes required brawny men and forklifts today hundreds gigabytes data can be stored on desktop computer hard which easily picked up transported by single person this amazing increase digital smaller form factors is due to continual areal density at end 1990s beginning 2000s densities were increasing rates 100 annually that means same number components would double from one year next 2002 2003 rate began slow down more historical prior 1997 it estimated was 50 60 equates doubling about two time table 1 gives my projections mainstream
