Posted on 12/09/2010 6:22:50 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Stop worrying about when the hard drive in your computer will die. Google wants to kill it permanently anyway.
The new Google Chrome operating system, which was unveiled Tuesday, as well as hints and suggestions from Apple and Microsoft, offers us a preview of the PC of the future. And it will come without that familiar whirring disk that has been the data heart of the PC for the past 25 years.
The Chrome OS will at first be available on all-black laptops from Samsung and Acer. And because the new platform stores everything -- files, applications, data bits and bytes, literally everything -- on online servers rather than on your home or office PC, those new PCs running it won't require gobs of storage. In fact, they won't require any storage at all.
The new Google laptops come without hard drives, in other words.
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My son sent to me a funny video regarding the introduction of ‘the book’ to replace the scroll. Put out in Danish. I’ll see if I can locate it and bring it here. Funny stuff.
Mass centralization of data is exactly what’s needed in corporate IT, I’m not so sure about it for the personal computing market yet.
No Thanks!
NoWay!
No How!
Fergitaboutit!
Ya Ain't Gettin' My Data!
I'll Keep My Hard Drive!
You Keep Your Mitts Off My Data!
In Other Words,
Go To Hell!
Well, there goes what’s left of the rest of your privacy.
Put this prediction in the "nobody will ever need more than 128K of RAM" bin. Amusingly wrong.
If anything kills off the hard drive, it will be advancements in flash memory. I'm not holding my breath.
The idea of the diskless PC died in the early 90’s. By the way, I’ve seen 2TB drives for less than $90.00.
Yea!Use their services free and then they own your data that they’re storing for you.Just look at the preconditions Microsoft,Apple and Google put on you when you want to use their products.You need to be a lawyer to understand what rights they’re trying to steal away from you.
My point of saying I bought a laptop drive for $89 was to point out that data storage is cheap.
What happens when Googles OS gets a virus? How about when they change policies and keep your data? Or they decide to sell it.
If you see the potential for some items to be of interest to the government you could keep them as hard copies only. Deleted files will eventually disappear. You could even keep them as microdots in a spice jar in the cupboard. No one would ever consider such archaic technologies as hard copies and mocrodots.
Ref: local cloud (i.e. virtualization)
Could you explain what “content” is on the hosted data center’s site? I was negotiating a “trail” cloud engagement today and this issue became a very “hot” subject matter regarding the liability of the customer’s content. I kept trying to explain that the data center does not actually have the customer’s data (nor liability) and that the “cloud” only provides the ability for the customer to use the internet as a way to their data.
I guess the same thing for what we have now, when you buy a laptop or desktop it no longer comes with a recovery disk(s). That’s why I turned my last broken laptop into a desktop with a 250G HD and external monitor ... I have a recovery disk for it and two for this laptop I’m on now.
Sure, but if a key can be made, it can be defeated by someone determined to do so, IMO.
As a DBA, I know what goes on at headquarters with centralized data. I don’t want others to have the level of access to my data that I have to others’ data. No thank you.
As a DBA, I know what goes on at headquarters with centralized data. I don’t want others to have the level of access to my data that I have to others’ data. No thank you.
In the really olden days before personal computers, “cloud” computing, of sorts, existed. In my first jobs I worked with what was then referred to as a “dumb terminal.” It was a TV tube screen and a keyboard, but no onboard memory. It was tied into a mainframe computer. You got access time to the mainframe’s processor, and this depended on your access privileges as well as how many people were using the system.
I wouldn’t have dared to keep any personal files on the mainframe.
On my home pc, I can disconnect it from the internet if I need to or want to, and still have access to all of MY files.
Yeah sure, I’m storing everything I have in the belly of the beast.
Maybe if you are a high school kid with zero data of any importance.
You are absolutely right about the herd mentality in IT. It usually starts with a product idea being pushed by a vendor at a trade show. Then it’s hyped by tech analysts who sell research subscriptions to the vendors. Vendors must subscribe to the analyst’s service to ensure their product gets coverage. Because all vendors and IT types go to the same trade shows and read the same trade press, they all jump on board with the original idea, giving it an appearance of legitimacy.
That’s the way it works and the reason so many products fail when it comes to implementation.
That was my reaction, too. They just re-invented the teletype linked to a central computer. Why do people keep wanting to do that? I want MY data where I control it.
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