Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:24:34 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | 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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Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 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 dubious. Ram costs about 150-200X as much as hard drives. I don't see that changing.
Chris
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