I wonder if we'll remember the days when computers had hard drives?

[War Lord]

I have read a number of articles recently.

A new way of rotating the magnetic field on a hard drive a few degrees, is enabling them to double, triple and even quadruple the drive size.

Also, I have heard, some manufacturers, are actually, looking to start replacing conventional hard drives with solid state memory (like USB drives, but internal) within the next year or two. They are much more pricey at the moment which is the prohibitive factor. These would be nice, they generate no heat, and have no moving parts, therefore also use much less power.

No moving parts = less breakdowns.

 

[jaguarr]

I have read a number of articles recently.

A new way of rotating the magnetic field on a hard drive a few degrees, is enabling them to double, triple and even quadruple the drive size.

Also, I have heard, some manufacturers, are actually, looking to start replacing conventional hard drives with solid state memory (like USB drives, but internal) within the next year or two. They are much more pricey at the moment which is the prohibitive factor. These would be nice, they generate no heat, and have no moving parts, therefore also use much less power.

Yep. Large capacity Flash drives.

jag

 

[maxwell's demon]

1.6 T-Byte?!? Jebus!!! I don't think even I could use all of that...

the thing to keep in mind though, is that as capacity increases, so does the nature of the material contained.
The real shift we're gonna see when this is pushed through is a paradigm shift in content.

 

[War Lord]

the thing to keep in mind though, is that as capacity increases, so does the nature of the material contained.
The real shift we're gonna see when this is pushed through is a paradigm shift in content.

To quote Bill Gates

Who needs more than 640k RAM?

 

[maxwell's demon]

wow he's right. that's like 160 of these things.

 

[Movies205]

Every year there is a new "technology" with amazing storage capabilities, wait till it hits the market before bothering to get your hopes up.

 

[Malice]

I have my home server, 350GB of space and have used almost all of it...thats alot of crap.