[dba-Tech] Storage Space

At long last, I think that technology has finally outrun my storage
requirements. And this is a Wonderful Thing.

As a semi-retired guy, occasionally called upon by old clients and the rare
instance of a new client, to store instances of their databases.

Recently I bought a Blu-ray burner (for the astonishingly low price of
$69.99) and promptly backed up everything to a series of six discs. That
includes the databases for several clients, plus all my documents, apps and
music. So now I have the following setup:

laptop with 1TB hard disk
USB 3.0 external 1TB hard disk
USB 2.0 external 500 MB hard disk
various thumb drives ranging from 4GB to 64GB

Lots of this is redundant: same files stored in various places, just in
case something fails. Scheduled jobs to synchronize the copies. I've lost
valuable stuff in the past, but now feel quite comfortable that even in the
worst events, my ass is covered.

I fondly recall the first hard disc I ever saw. My friend Ben had an Apple
Lisa and purchased a 5MB hard disk for about $2500, and all of us (who
owned mere floppy discs) were sick with envy. Times have changed.

-- 
Arthur