That&#x27;s an interesting point, though I suspect it&#x27;s slightly overstated.  I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s several scenarios that demand huge amounts of storage - e.g. storing HD series, etc - but I&#x27;d argue that it isn&#x27;t mainstream in the greater scheme of things.  Heck, I have a 2mbit ADSL line (since I&#x27;m living in the arse end of nowhere), and my primary PC has 3x250GB spinnies and a 100GB SSD, no cloud storage.  I have a 2TB external for long-term backups.  I haven&#x27;t bothered to replace the HDDs, because honestly I don&#x27;t <i>really</i> need to.  And I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not a special case.