In a utterly fascinating article a Jim Gray sits down and talks about where we are headed with Network Storage. This article should provide a lot of insight to both the geek and non geek. The disclaimer on the interview is you better clear your schedule as you will want to read the whole thing once your started. I agree and it opened my eyes to the road we are on when it comes to Storage.
Also to answer my own question I have a terabyte of storage and the only way I keep track of the data is some impressive databases. [Queue]