Didn't they say the same thing about disk replacing tape? Although that does appear to be happening tape is still around and has it's uses.
-----Original Message----- Howard Brazee On 11 Aug 2010 05:51:20 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) wrote: >This is about some comments from Oracle EVP John Fowler. He indicates that disk is dying. >He envisions it being replace by flash RAM. And not in our current mode >of being an external I/O device, but actually being on the data bus of >the CPU. So all active data will be in non-volatile, directly >addressable, server memory. Backup will be on high speed (1,380 Tb/hour >==~ 383 Mb/second) tape. Not related to this directly was talk about a Sparc processor with 128 cores and 16,384 threads. I remember Jerry Pournelle in Byte talking about how every year people were talking about disk dying, but disk keeping getting cheaper and better. He opinioned that eventually it would happen, but way after the pundits would predict. IBM's use of the term DASD gets around saying "disk", but by the time disk goes away, the term DASD may not quite apply either. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
