The first thing that I thought of when I read the headline after, "hmm, interesting," was, "What?? RAM for storing data?"
I've had problems enough with hard drives crashing and losing data without having to worry about having a power outage and losing everything. A UPS is a good idea for servers, and perhaps in some other special incidences too, but I wouldn't want to be tied down to having one. The electricity to my house is rarely constant, and lights flicker all the time due to lackluster electrical jobs.
For me at least, 2 GB is not nearly enough to store all of my data anyway. If they find a way to assure me that I won't lose my data, and increase the size of the drive, then I may just opt for the enhanced speed. Until then, I'll stick with my current drive.
I'm a firm believer in Google and all, but I think that there are always new things that another search engine could provide that would make me switch.
I think some of the things that made Google so big are that their pages load fast, the search results are so simple, and commercialism doesn't affect the search results themselves. If another engine can match this, I'm sure that they'll go far, even if not as far as Google has.
Besides, if anything it will give Google something to worry about so that they'll work even harder at securing their position as the best.;)
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The first thing that I thought of when I read the headline after, "hmm, interesting," was, "What?? RAM for storing data?"
I've had problems enough with hard drives crashing and losing data without having to worry about having a power outage and losing everything. A UPS is a good idea for servers, and perhaps in some other special incidences too, but I wouldn't want to be tied down to having one. The electricity to my house is rarely constant, and lights flicker all the time due to lackluster electrical jobs.
For me at least, 2 GB is not nearly enough to store all of my data anyway. If they find a way to assure me that I won't lose my data, and increase the size of the drive, then I may just opt for the enhanced speed. Until then, I'll stick with my current drive.
I'm a firm believer in Google and all, but I think that there are always new things that another search engine could provide that would make me switch. I think some of the things that made Google so big are that their pages load fast, the search results are so simple, and commercialism doesn't affect the search results themselves. If another engine can match this, I'm sure that they'll go far, even if not as far as Google has. Besides, if anything it will give Google something to worry about so that they'll work even harder at securing their position as the best. ;)