Actually the demand for digital storage is always going up and will
not come down. The reasons being :-
(1) More video clips – even self-produced one to upload in to
youtube, even inflight airline piping video
(2) More video camera – in smartphone, tablets, car- more selfie
(3) More cctv for security and surveillance
(4) Explosion of social media – mass amount of data – text, voice,
image, video etc.
So begin to ask ourselves, with so much explosion of storage
requirements, why do disk storage company face problem in market demand?
Where does demand come from :-
(1) Business enterprise, Government storage requirement– that will
see disk storage in server harddisk – configure for RAID 10 – striping and
mirroring, RAID 5 – parity disk, RAID 6 – 2 parity disk; SAN storage disk
array, Hadoop storage for social media etc.
And the
disk required will be SSD (Solid State Disk), FC disk (Fiber Channel Disk), SAS
disk, SATA disk.
(2) Explosion in demand from tablets, smartphone, phablets,
iWearable etc - will require plenty of disk space like SD storage, memory,
small-form factor storage etc.
Disk storage
companies must be able to adapt and transform its production line to produce
small-form factor storage for these devices – due to the dwindling demands of
notebooks and PCs.
(3) Disk storage companies that traditionally manufacture for the PC
and notebooks market – must have seen a big drop in demand for disk storage in
these sectors – and must adapt to go for the booming markets for consumables
namely the tablets, smartphone, phablets, iWearable etc to replace its
dwindling market.
Only then will such retrenchment be prevented.
Talk nonsense.
There is nothing in this world or in our solar system that is capable of reverting a declining trend in having these hard drive storages from getting cheaper by the day.
Why?
Because of VIRTUAL STORAGE.
From Tencent (Wechat) declaring free 10 Gb of storage, to Hotmail to Dropbox to yahoo mail to Google to the tens or even hundreds of apps where users can upload pics and vids to these platforms, and access them from any part of the world, and all the more to the ever-expanding byte sizes of handphones and laptops, why would someone wants to carry a hard disk storage and walks around?
The way this hard disk storage are dying are just like how CDs falter and fade away into the tides of human history, when the moment digital sounds/ music are made possible to be stored by the thousands in number.
Yah, store in dropbox in social media. Then all your privacy gone.
The best you store your financial account there and let hackers hack.
Also all these public cloud no need to buy storage to store your files meh? To you is virtual storage, to these public cloud is actual storage.
You ask around the company what is their harddisk requirements? Email with attachment of files grow exponentially - all these no need disk storage meh?
Also 10GB of storage is no big deal. BTW what is the storage requirement for a hour long movie of HD DVD video mpeg? at least few hundred MB - and 10 GB will soon finish.
The ONLY real function of disk storage is for storing videos.
Pictures - online apps like Flickr or Dropbox, which is MORE THAN ENOUGH for any user to save his/ her pics
Musics/ songs - handphones/ laptops/ tablets, not forgetting MP3 players, are MORE THAN ENOUGH to let any normal user to keep his/ her songs.
Documents - Hotmail, Yahoo or Google, and Dropbox, MORE THAN ENOUGH to let common users to upload and save them for eternity, not to mention instant access in any part of the world.
Videos...save in laptops, tablets and home PCs, not enough?
Whoever declares any type of this storage is not enough must be a hardcore user. All other types of users are practically using these apps and programmes with MORE THAN ENOUGH free space.
Hack? What kind of photos are you taking to be afraid of 'hackers' gaining unauthorised access? You a good friend Edison Chen is it?
I see - your profile, your documents, your family members, your friends, your hobbies etc - will be in full view in the Internet.
Your confidentiality, your work, your associates, your privacy, --- can be fully profile and track. Good luck to you.
I guess you also store your corporate documents, pricing, company confidential info. , customer data in the Internet as well. Good luck to your company if they lose their business.
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