what to do with lots of portable storage

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A while ago (5 Aug 2000) I wrote [2]:

> Also in the "too many files" department, yesterday I was cleaning
> up the hard drive on my home machine to make room for more MP3s,
> and I noticed that I now have almost a third of a million files in
> my personal HTTP archive. [1] (307,620 files as of the end of July.)
>
> [1] http://impressive.net/people/gerald/1999/01/http-archive/
>
> This probably sounds like a waste of disk space, but when tarred
> and compressed all these files take less than 1.5 gigs, which
> costs less than $5 to store on CD-Rs.
>
> These tar balls aren't the most convenient format for these
> archives to be in, but I can extract them back out again in a
> few years when I have a terabyte of storage on my wristwatch.

I was partly joking about having a terabyte of storage on my
wristwatch, but I think something like that is actually quite
feasible, say within 10-15 years or so. (maybe it will take the
form of something like a PDA, not necessarily a wristwatch.)

So I was just thinking, what would I store if I had a terabyte of
storage with me wherever I went?

That would be enough to store all of:

 - a few thousand of my favorite CDs
 - every photo I have ever taken
 - a few hundred hours of digital video (say, home/vacation videos)
 - every email message I have sent or received for the past few decades
 - every web page I have ever visited (well, since I started archiving
   them a couple years ago)

Of course, it would also have wireless in/out, so I could export
my music collection to friends that are nearby, or if I'm in a car,
my car's audio system could have access to all the tunes on my
personal storage system.

Cool, I can't wait!

[2] http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/[email protected]

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