the.com/storage capacity
the amount of stuff you can hoard before you're forced to confront your choices.
means the maximum quantity of data, or physical goods, a system can hold before it politely refuses more.
from from warehousing and shipping, where hold capacity was measured in barrels and bushels long before bytes existed; computing just borrowed the metaphor when memory needed a unit too.
first hard drive1956 ibm ramac held 5 megabytes, weighed a ton
phone storage mythadvertised gigabytes always shrink after formatting
human brain estimateroughly 2.5 petabytes, never once fully backed up
cloud liethe cloud is just someone else's hard drive