The size of removable storage is shrinking extremely quickly. Not long ago, removable storage meant CDs or a big external hard drive. Now, though, you can get a memory card the size of your fingernail and thinner than a penny that stores 16GB of data.

When it comes to external storage size (not capacity) most people agree smaller is better, but up to what point? Today’s storage devices are already easily losable and even more easily snapped. In a couple of years, the devices will be even smaller. When is small just too small?

It seems that we are reaching the physical limits of how small our data storage devices can be. The next step, then, has to be to eliminate the device alltogether. That’s where we are headed with the cloud.

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