The NAA facility is called a prototype because its current capacity
(approximately 50 terabytes), is regarded as being grossly inadequate for the
predicted deluge of digital records that logically should soon be arriving.
This logic seems irrefutable if you consider the rapidly expanding volume
of petabytes of digitally stored information currently managed by over 300
Australian government agencies. This logic leads the NAA to the view that
before long it will need a greatly expanded digital archive, with “industrial
scale” ingest and preservation capacity.