Digital Content in Average U.S. Home Could Hit 12TB by 2014

**Jason**

Interesting article... What do you think?

I may have about the average, and although I am set to store 12TB I have far less right now. I don't see it increasing 5x in 3 years.

How much do you have now and do you think this article is just a sales pitch by the storage manufacturers? Laughing

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:00:55 Post Subject:

Define "Digital Content"

Laughing

caligo · Rated R Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 91 Location: East Coast

Currently a bit below average.. unless you count my backups and cd/dvds.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3472

I agree that space requirements is growing, but I'm not sure I'd agree with 5x the space in 3 years. That's a huge jump...at the same time I have rips of all my DVD's (600+), and will be ripping my blu-rays (100+) very soon.

With more TV's becoming network connected, average people might start doing the same thing to access them all via their TV's.

fortunzfavor · Rated PG Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 13

When I saw the title I assumed this was going to include streamed content (which would be pretty believable given how much SD content I've streamed from NF in past few months. I don't doubt the average bandwidth will jump dramatically in the next 3 years and with it, HD streaming.).

But just storage? I dunno, I'm still on DVD. How big are those 3D BDs they're selling? I still think 3D is a fad, but it's an increasingly popular one.

LovermanOwens · Rated PG Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 16

I currently have about 5 TB in storage in my prime PC. And within the year I plan on getting another 2TB drive...but the estimations seem a bit high.