Will "hard drives" be solid state ten
years from now, and have no moving parts?
Compact Flash memory is still expensive at this
for only a 1Gb. To reach for example,the 320Gb
capacity of some newer drives...Sandisk and other
CF card manufacturers would have to redesign
completely manufacturing process. HDDs prices are
very low(except perhaps for SCSI drives) and they will
stay for a long time i think. Optical technology is promising
especially for removable medias like the present DVD-RWs
but access is still needed by means of mechanical operations
wich is not an advantage over HDDs :-(
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Alain(alias:Kilowatt)
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