Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mudama, Eric" <> | Subject | RE: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk se ctors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:14:32 -0600 |
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> -----Original Message----- > > Battery-backed SRAM "drives" in the gigabyte sizes already exist. > Terabytes should not be too far off. > > Soon those "drives" will be as cheap as their mechanical emulations > and you won't need those metal boxes with the rotating mass anymore. > The batteries last about 10 years. Better than most mechanical > drives.
I'm looking forward to a solid state primary hard drive.
However, they've been saying that solid state will replace mechanical for close to 10 years now... yet our mechanical drives have doubled in size twice in under 3 years...
I'm sure it'll happen someday, but it may be 5-10 years before it actually happens.
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