-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: 1.2 petabyte drives on the way? Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:23:59 -0800 From: Dewayne Hendricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Note: This comment comes from reader Mike O'Dell. DLH] > From: Mike O'Dell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: February 19, 2006 8:03:17 AM PST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] 1.2 petabyte drives on the way? > > Jim Gray, famous database maven, in an interview with > David Patterson (of UCBerkeley CS) has already lamented > the fact that current "disk drives" are already much more > like tape drives in their random access performance. > > i highly recommend reading this for a bit of perspective > > <http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=43> > > drives storing 10^15 bytes cannot help but exacerbate > the huge mismatches in performance and behavior, > with the likely result that the devices will not be > as immediately usable as the fantastical extrapolation > might imply. > > i'd love to see Jim Gray's comments on using such a device. > > -mo Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
