I can recall Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, writing in 1996 or so about the coming "Internet crash." He called it a "gigalapse." He publicly and very enthusiastically predicted that very soon the Internet would not be able to handle the data load and would fail.
I must have overslept that day and missed it. Oh yeah, I remember something about Y2K destroying the world too. IOW, I'll believe this latest apocalyptic prediction when I (or someone else) see(s) it. > -----Original Message----- > From Zdnet storage blogs - titled "Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009" > Robin Harris discusses why RAID risks are starting to overwhelm its > protections. A must read for anyone serious about storage (and > especially retrieval) - not a be-all, but these risks are real and not > considering them invites disastrous data loss. > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
