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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Mudama, Eric" <eric_mudama@Maxtor.com>,
	"'Nuno Silva'" <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk se ctors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:24:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F940C42.7080308@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0310201204100.13739@chaos>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-20 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-18 17:18 Mudama, Eric
2003-10-18 18:06 ` Matthias Urlichs
2003-10-20 15:54 ` Rik van Riel
2003-10-20 16:09   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-20 16:24     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-10-21 19:13       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-20 17:49     ` John Bradford
2003-10-20 17:48       ` David Lang
2003-10-20 18:29         ` John Bradford
2003-10-21 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-20 16:14 Mudama, Eric
2003-10-18 16:54 Mudama, Eric
2003-10-18 18:19 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-10-18 20:08 ` John Bradford
2003-10-19 22:53 ` Pavel Machek

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