Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk se ctors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) | Date | 21 Oct 2003 12:10:22 -0700 |
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Followup to: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB2EF@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> By author: "Mudama, Eric" <eric_mudama@Maxtor.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > If current trends hold, in the next few years, hard drives are going to have > to pick up and rewrite their data continuously to avoid signal decay on the > media... a drive gets closer and closer to a DRAM cell than a stone tablet. > (And yes, I've heard all the jokes about bricks/stones/etc) >
Quite frankly, I think you'll have a hideously hard time selling that to customers, once a few of them have lost their Quicken records due to having had their computers turned off/disconnected for some time.
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