Ah, yes, it would "...make more sense to have more and, and cheaper flash instead..."
and of course that is coming. But reliability has not yet arrived. When the day comes that they have the long-term reliability issues conquered, and when they have the speed issues engineered into them, then it will make more sense to have more, and cheaper, flash instead. That day is not yet here... but it is coming. Estimates are that we will not see speed and reliability on a large scale until 2011 or 2012... but there is always some clever engineer who figgers it out. Until more and cheaper and high speed flash is also as reliable as current hard drives, then you will not see much movement beyond the experimental drives. Right now, they haven't figgered out "More" or "cheaper." What is more, there is not much demand driving the research at a time when most companies are in turmoil. If Hitachi could perfect these technologies, it might keep them out of bankruptcy. If Samsung could get things perfected, it might make them competitive in the hard drive market. We have Fujitsu, Hitachi, Maxtor, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, TriGem, and Western Digital all competing for the same market. So far, the market cannot support eight drive manufacturers. Nobody has these new technologies working well. The one who succeeds will be King. 500,000 GB is a joke! Right? With low heat? With high speed? Reliable they are not. Yet. Speed? Not yet. 500TB at high speed and low heat. Not yet And their eventual price will surely not reach $10. Not Yet The power is not to the rich. Nor the battle to the strong. But that is the way to bet. The meek shall inherit the earth, but not yet. yaR On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:25 AM, tOM Trottier <t...@abacurial.com> wrote: > They have just created magnetic storage < > http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43042/135/> which holds 3 orders of > magnitude more data in the same space. Your 500GB disk could then hold > 500,000GB. > > The real question then becomes, "How much is enough?" If 100-500GB is > fine for you, then SSDs at their eventual price of $10 or so will be fine. > But if you want to hold all your HiDef movies for trips, or eventually 3D > HD movies, then you may appreciate 500TB. > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
