* Most data is reasonably small, and super-critical. I might have legal documents, personal emails, source code, etc. My business might have basic employee information, or sales transactions. Most of that, efficiently-stored, would fit in a box of 1.44MB floppies.
* I have medium-sized data like photos (product, family, etc).
* I have big data, like videos. A workplace might have surveillance videos, while I might have copies of movies I like, and ISOs of software I bought.
The above is a bit of a obfuscated to not reveal personal information (I took analogies to the types of data I and my business have).
In many cases, it doesn't make sense to have multiple storage locations and to manage all that yourself (management gets too expensive). It's cheaper to keep your big stuff on expensive media than to take time or to hire a software engineer.
At some point, I also start to either discard things explicitly (erase a file), or implicitly (photos/videos with lossy compression). A question is when that happens.
The answer, I think, just moved from "at 8TB, on a WD drive" to "at 1TB, on an SSD."
* Most data is reasonably small, and super-critical. I might have legal documents, personal emails, source code, etc. My business might have basic employee information, or sales transactions. Most of that, efficiently-stored, would fit in a box of 1.44MB floppies.
* I have medium-sized data like photos (product, family, etc).
* I have big data, like videos. A workplace might have surveillance videos, while I might have copies of movies I like, and ISOs of software I bought.
The above is a bit of a obfuscated to not reveal personal information (I took analogies to the types of data I and my business have).
In many cases, it doesn't make sense to have multiple storage locations and to manage all that yourself (management gets too expensive). It's cheaper to keep your big stuff on expensive media than to take time or to hire a software engineer.
At some point, I also start to either discard things explicitly (erase a file), or implicitly (photos/videos with lossy compression). A question is when that happens.
The answer, I think, just moved from "at 8TB, on a WD drive" to "at 1TB, on an SSD."