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No Cheap Replacement For Hard Disks Before 2020

Posted by timothy on from the we'll-see-in-10-years-about-that dept.

siddesu writes with disappointing news to anyone who'd like to see solid-state storage dominate in the near-term future. "A new study of storage technology by the former CTO of Seagate predicts that hard disks will remain the cheapest storage technology in the next decade and probably beyond."

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  1. Re:Huh? by cjfs · · Score: 3, Funny

    So these people can predict the future now?!

    Dude, the guy has his own Wikipedia article. I'm pretty sure that grants him all sorts of powers.

  2. Re:Pentagon to use cyborg flies to spy on people. by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Good luck with that."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_zapper

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  3. Re:Huh? by kenj0418 · · Score: 3, Funny

    With any luck, maybe he'll test out his newfound abilities on a tall building.

    I'm assuming you mean testing it from the top of the tall building. Because if you fail while trying to 'leap tall buildings in a single bound' its much less spectacular if you were starting at the bottom.

  4. Damn! Stop all work!!! by coryking · · Score: 3, Funny

    dealbreaker right there

    Holy shit! Anonymous Coward says current generation SSD's might not be able to be used for long-term backup! Clearly this means there is absolutely no use for Solid State Disks whatsoever!

    The game is over gentleman. Time to shut down production and throw in the towel.

    Thanks for saving our ass. Anybody reading this should know that Anonymous Coward is a smart cookie--he was also responsible for warning about the transition from perfectly sound MFM interface to the bloated, evil IDE interface. Whatever advice he gives regarding these untested, unsound Solid State Disks should be wisely heeded.

  5. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe you could wait until he was few hundred feet up in the air, and then revert the edit?

  6. Re:So that means that by 2015... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's getting better, but I'll wait a few more product generations before using them in SQL servers. With HDD crashes, at least the data can be professionally recovered to some degree. But what about SSDs? If the controller dies and/or a PSU fries every chip, I'm afraid all the data would be lost forever!

    The backup strategy that you are using on your database server is to have your data professionally recovered after a disk crash?

  7. Re:So that means that by 2015... by turing_m · · Score: 2, Funny

    The backup strategy that you are using on your database server is to have your data professionally recovered after a disk crash?

    For a bonus point, name the RDBMS he is using to store his data (5 letters). For an extra two bonus points, name the small aquatic mammalian mascot of said RDBMS.

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  8. Re:Huh? by jez9999 · · Score: 3, Funny

    We've already passed the visual resolution where porn becomes gynaecology. Even lust has resolution limits.

    Maybe so, but we haven't reached them yet. I wanna know what bacteria and fungi she's carrying.

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  9. Re:Huh? by Bob_Who · · Score: 4, Funny

    Saying Are and Is are both correct.

    Saying Are and Is are both correct, is correct.

    Both are, is correct. Are is both are saying is.