"Disks are cheaper all the time"

This is the comment that seems to arrise from the mouths of all kinds. I've heard business managers, IT managers, developers and even administrators use this statement, and I think its misleading. 1TB in a notebook is not the same kind of storage as 1TB on the network. That's like saying that cars are cheap. I can go buy a new Saturn Ion for about $13,000, but you're not going to see me out at the local track with it.

The total cost of storage includes redundancy, data retention, and performance costs. These prices are coming down, but at an even lower rate than the 1TB of storage you'd purchase at Best Buy. I disagree with Steve, as it is the job of the storage administrators to push on end users to take ownership of their data as they are the only ones that can make a good decision as to what to keep and what not to keep. The storage administrator is merely trying to impress upon the user to keep their hard drives clean and organized just as a manager would impress upon them to clean up their cubicals!