Streaming our audio and video collections from home will soon become a normal everyday occurrence. Hosting an image gallery with the 10,000 high-resolution digital pictures we’ve taken over the last few years will no longer be an issue. Setting up a blog on these little machines will also be pretty simple, as 99% of all blogs in the world do not attract enough attention to warrant the massive servers they currently sit on with the various shared-hosting services.

All of these things are possible now, and some of us started doing much of it three years ago on some pretty archaic hardware. As more and more of us build multi-terabyte home storage solutions, we’ll need to give more consideration to what can stay, and what should go. That said, some of us should decide in the near future whether we’ll be digital pack rats, or transient data savers.