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    Never-ending storage

    Sep 22, 2019 5 minutes

    There is an argument that for the truly modernist lover of entertainment, storage is now something which is surplus to requirements. Streaming has taken over from ownership, and if we choose to rent rather than buy our music and our movies, what need then for the capacious hard drive or the networked NAS on which to store those copious files of ownership?

    It is a paradigm shift the day of which has not truly dawned for most of us. What of your old CD collection — will you drag those out disc by disc, or have them ripped to a drive for instant access? While Netflix and the ever-growing raft of competitors in Stan, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and AppleTV+ offer up instant streaming gratification, downloads legitimate and otherwise have hardly been eradicated, indeed the files are now bigger than ever, and many maintain

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