I think it will be quite a while before all hard disks are gone, but it is inevitable. When my phone has a 16GB memory card in it and a slot for another 16GB, you have to accept that solid state storage is not far off.
I do see a migration from hard to solid-state, must the way we migrated from strings of real 3380/3390s to the emulated disk subsystems. Put stuff on different technologies based on performance until the high performance stuff is cheap enough to have all through the data center. You have a very high profile database, get a solid-state storage system to put the data on. Lower priority stuff gets to stay on the old hard round/brown disks. This migration will be faster than moving from real 3380/3390 disks to emulated disk subsystems. /Tom Kern Timothy Sipples wrote: > Perhaps a more interesting question is whether hard disks are "dead," > felled (or soon to be) by solid state storage. :-) > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > Resident Architect > STG Value Creation and Complex Deals > IBM Growth Markets > E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
