In <of54f37709.110ca5bf-on482576f5.00045a41-482576f5.00047...@us.ibm.com>, on 03/29/2010 at 08:49 AM, Timothy Sipples <timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com> said:
>Perhaps a more interesting question is whether hard disks are "dead," >felled (or soon to be) by solid state storage. :-) FSVO soon. I'm reminded of the conventional wisdom that thin film would replace core. It turned out that it was easier to improve core technology, so that semiconductor memory killed of thin film at a time when core was still going strong. My take is that solid state memory will eventually replace disks, but that the disk manufacturers will continue pushing the technology to higher densities and lower prices for at least a few more years. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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