Cool stuff. My next computer will not have spinning drives.
Cool stuff. My next computer will not have spinning drives.
Have they ever solved the problem that after you had written to the same spot on the drive a number of times that spot was now no longer viable?
I remember that being an issue early on; it’s why I don’t own any of these devices.
There was a show on one of the cable channels more than a year ago about futuristic computer technology. One technology used magnets as storage devices. The capacity for storage was virtually limitless.
How soon will they show up at Wal-Mart? And for how much?
To put that in more down to Earth terms, that would be about 28 single layer DVD quality movies on one of those chips.
At that point, it would seem that having a faster bus becomes much more important. For this reason it is probably going to be USB3 4.8Gbit/s instead of USB2 480Mbit/s.
A good application for this kind of device would be to hold a navigation database that normally resides on a CD ROM or DVD ROM. Access times are faster. The operation is mostly read. Updates might only be necessary annually as new databases are offered by the supplier.
Wow. That’s something. I still remember buying my 100MB hard drive in college in ‘93 and thinking it would be impossible to fill that up. lol
I’ll have the one on the right with a side of shrimp fried rice :)
Dang, and I just forked over 40 bucks for a 4 gig Cruzer. I coulda had a vee-eight!
I am so impressed with the electronics from South Korea. Seriously, a few years ago I considered Korean products as cheap, second-rate products. But now I place them squarely as good as anything from Japan or the USA. Anything from Samsung or LG is as good as it gets. Kudos to the Koreans for truly achieving superiority in many markets.
Samsung’s been coming out with a number of amazing products this year. If Sony’s OLED product doesn’t take off, they had better watch out!
Whew!
Well it's not all good. The government will start remembering everything about you, all your cell phone pings from everywhere you go, every expression on your face and everything you look at as you walk down every street. It's a socialist dictator's dream.
The mechanical disk drive is the slowest most unreliable part of a computer. The problem is they keep growing in capacity while dropping in cost, so they never seem to go away.
It's possible right now to convert the entire text content in the Library of Congress, every newspaper and book ever copyrighted in America, onto a single $150 disk drive. I would think that would greatly extend the amount of knowledge everyone could data mine. This would be bad for leftism because the patterns of failure couldn't so easily be hidden. Sadly the Library of Congress has no plans to digitize their collection.
Scrumptious Hardware Ping
I had all this in 1983...
OMG, I want one!
Nice!! The memory cards are impressive too!
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Fox News | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Corinna Underwood
Posted on 11/16/2007 11:27:29 AM EST by Ancient Drive
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