Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:54:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | RE: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk se ctors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) |
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Mudama, Eric wrote:
> If current trends hold, in the next few years, hard drives are going to > have to pick up and rewrite their data continuously to avoid signal > decay on the media... a drive gets closer and closer to a DRAM cell than > a stone tablet.
If the current trends hold, most computers won't be powered on long enough to read all the data that will fit on a disk.
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