While shopping for a laptop, I noticed a trend in many companies: they are using small-sized hard disks on their high end machines. These companies include Sony, Lenovo, Toshiba, and the likes… Samsung even has 128 GB hard disks on its high end machines. While these hard disks are all SSDs (Solid State Drive), which are considerably faster (and I’m talking from personal experience here) than the previous hard disk type, they are still quite expensive and they are small.

On my current laptop, which I use for development and other professional activities, I am using about 180 GB, and I don’t download any movies or music. Which means that if someone is doing these types of downloads (and I suspect that many people do), then definitely the 256 GB SSD isn’t enough.

I don’t know whether it’s the hefty price of the 512 SSD option or the fact that most companies are trying to push us to use this so called “cloud” storage (cloud storage means storing your personal files on an a server on the Internet – more or less like a document management system, but with a fancy marketing name) that is the cause of this issue, but the 256 GB is not an option for many people out there in this day and age. I wonder how long it’ll be before these large companies discover this.

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