- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:10:53 -0400
- To: Alan Karp <alanhkarp@gmail.com>
- Cc: Stephen Curran <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>, Patrick St-Louis <patrick.st-louis@opsecid.ca>, W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 1:58 PM Alan Karp <alanhkarp@gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder if the concern of sizes is warranted. I remember a report from the Plan 9 people some 40 or more years ago that their disks were getting emptier over machine generations. Back then the growth in the amount of data was swamped by the increase in storage density. > Does that observation apply today? I have no idea, but it's what I see on my own machines. You make a solid point, Alan. I was feeling SO VERY OLD the other day when I saw an article stating that 44TB 3.5" hard drives are now shipping in bulk: https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/seagate-mozaic-4-plus-44tb-hamr-hard-drives/ ... and that the MEDIAN download speed in the US is 302 Mbps. The numbers are so large that it's difficult for me to reason about them... at what point should we not care about storage size these days? Anything under 100KB, 1MB, 1GB? -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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