RE: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk se ctors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?)

From: Rik van Riel (riel_at_redhat.com)
Date: 10/20/03

  • Next message: Mudama, Eric: "RE: Blockbusting news, results are in" 
    Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:54:23 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Mudama, Eric" <eric_mudama@Maxtor.com>

    On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Mudama, Eric wrote:

    > 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.

    If the current trends hold, most computers won't be powered
    on long enough to read all the data that will fit on a disk. 

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