All Things PerfectDisk – and Defrag - Information consumption surging -- better defrag

In a press release from StorageNewsletter.com today, the University of California, San Diego has released a report that states U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, with the bulk coming from computer games and TV. Some of the numbers are truly mind boggling. For example, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day.

Wow - no wonder Grandma and Grandpa say life was a lot simpler back in the day!

And while the tried and true, "traditional" methods of consumption (radio and tv) dominate our consumption of information (60%), the UCSD report states that "computers have had major effects on some aspects of information consumption. In the past, information consumption was overwhelmingly passive, with telephone being the only interactive medium. Thanks to computers, a full third of words and more than half of bytes are now received interactively. Reading, which was in decline due to the growth of television, tripled from 1980 to 2008, because it is the overwhelmingly preferred way to receive words on the Internet."

With all this information overload, everything can become easily fragmented -- your brain, your paper files...and of course your computer files. Just another reason it makes sense to schedule defragmentation on your computers today. Even better, set up an automatic fast defrag.

So much data and information to absorb, so little time.

You can see the entire press release here.