>A long absence of power to affect refreshes of solid state storage can still >render solid state storage unusable, while true disks don't need refreshing to maintain the content.
There are some shops, in the Greater Toronto Area, using them in production. >Also, power surges and vagaries in supply voltage and/or current levels are >less likely to affect a hard drive, even though the cirtuitry to avoid these >vagaries is becoming more and more prevalent today. UPS and power conditioning come to mind. Who powers their data centre straight from the grid, these days? >Can we all remember the STC "Solid State Disk"? And manufacturing vagaries can >still have severe and detrimental effects on solid-state memory, whereas the >manufacture of magnetic disks is fairly well solidified today, except for incremental changes that affect capacity. Then stop using Cache and CPU memory. It's the same chipsets, in most cases. >I predict that magnetic disk technology will bbe with us for the foreseeable >future. No more than two or three mainframes will ever be sold. Nobody will ever need more than 640K of memory. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
