BAD HARDWARE WEEK

n a new study released earlier today, research firm IDC found that the digital universe in 2007 had reached a whopping 281 billion gigabytes or 281 exabytes, 10% larger than originally estimated. What’s more, as consumers and companies create more emails, legal documents, photos and videos, the digital universe is growing at 60% a year. However, the study was commissioned by storage company EMC, so take the results with the appropriate grain of salt.