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<ofeeb22c6c.b200d94c-on48257d9e.002229fa-48257d9e.002d8...@sg.ibm.com>,
on 11/28/2014
at 04:14 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> said:
>Setting aside current pricing, what are the characteristics of
>hard disks that make them better suited to particular use cases
>than (modern, current) SSD?
You don't have to worry about doing too many writes to the same track.
Caveat: I don't guaranty that there will be an equivalent issue with
newer SSD technology.
>- mercury delay line memory;
That was volatile main memory, not nonvolatile auxilliary storage.
>- data cell drives (i.e. the IBM 2321);
>A fascinating device but way before my time.
It was more recent than the mercury delay line! Probably more
reliable, hard though that may be to believe.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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