Fujisitu has announced it's the first to break the terabyte barrier on a laptop. Yipes! In fact,it's a 1.2 terabyte hard drive to be exact.

A few months ago, I noted the announcement from Hitachi that it had come up with the first terabyte hard drive for a desktop PC. I guess one for a laptop was bound to happen. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Here's the problem: that's a lot of info to be schlepping around in your briefcase. One terabyte is the equivalent of 50,000 trees worth of paper. Any database that big is going to be very valuable and require lots of security. To quote a previous posting from June, here are my thoughts about TMI (too much information) on a laptop.

June 20th, 2007th Posting Laptops: The Loose Cannons of Data Security

Call me crazy, call me madcap, but....

Just because you can fit that much data on a single laptop, doesn't mean you should.
Does the average diamond dealer tool around town with his highly portable inventory in a little felt bag on the front seat of the car, while running errands? No! Just because diamonds are highly portable, we all know that stuff doesn't leave the building unless absolutely necessary and only then under armed escort in a Brinks truck. Organizations and businesses that traffic in personal information would do well to take their cues from the jewelry business.