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Richey, no offense taken. My dad was the primary culprit. Nevertheless it is a fact of life, or was, for me. I know I'm not alone as I know others who also started back in the days of tape storage, then 8" floppies, the 5.25" , then 3.5" (and mix in Zip drives and other flash-in-the-pan formats). So to wave your hands today and say we're fine with CD's or DVD's or whatever you are using, and little future effort will be required, is naive and likely to be wrong.
I agree that storage capacity is beginning to pull ahead but it is not the complete freedom you may be thinking of yet. I myself made a bunch of panoramic (composited) images of 900 MB (0.9 GB) file size each. A well-exposed 35 mm Velvia slide contains somewhere between 15 and 60 MB of data, depending on color depth (8 bit to 24 bit). Process any digital video (DV) lately? That'll tax your storage (and processing power). We're not quite at the devil-may-care stage of digital storage.
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