You know the feeling — the sense that maybe you should be concerned because your hard disk is filling up with stuff: important documents, notes, applications, service packs, PST files, PDF files, MP3 files (totally work-related, of course)… To paraphrase a quote attributed (but not really said by) the late senator Everett Dirksen, “A billion bytes here, a billion bytes there, and pretty soon you’re talking real storage.” We can never have enough.

But Fujitsu is working to change that. Come the first quarter of 2008, this company that pops out new models of hard drives like microwaves produce popcorn will be making available the memorably named MHZ2 BH series mobile hard disk drive for notebook and PC use. Why does it matter? Because it’ll come in storage capacities up to 320 gigabytes. Now, I’m not going to go into one of those comparisons that tells you just how much storage that equates to (”This hard drive will be able to hold the equivalent of 1,300 entire BitTorrent show catalogs and still leave you room for your Flickr backups…”), but I will tell you that that size of hard drive is big, REALLY BIG.

Then again, could I be revisiting this same topic in three years, asking just how much storage is enough? Perhaps. Or perhaps not. As poet William Blake pronounced: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” Of course, he also did add, “Enough! Or Too much.”