"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 9/6/13 5:02 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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I'd guess drive failures are the most common problems on computers.

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With "Cloud" storage and solid state memory like high density SDXC
cards, disk drives are probably going to join the ranks of the
obsolete.
Lexan just introduced a 256Gb card and Sandisk has developed one
which
makes it possible to manufacture cards with storage capacity up to 2
terabytes.

I don't use more than 25 percent of the hard drive capacities on
either
of my laptops.


I have a mini SDXC card in my laptop...it's no bigger than a little
finger nail and it has a 64 GB capacity. These external solid state
drives, though, are still slow because they use a USB like interface.
The SSD in the laptop, however, seems faster than greased lightning.

You're right, of course, the handwriting is on the wall for spinning
drives.

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Another one for the scrap book. Back in the mid 80's the company I
was working for at the time designed and built a vacuum deposition
system for Seagate that deposited the magnetic storage media on the
disks. They were physically huge back then and certainly not the
high density of the drives available today. We also built another
system for a subsidy of Alcoa who were getting into making the storage
disks. This was all early in the game. The Alcoa system required an
amorphous hard carbon coating as well that protected and added
lubricity to the disk to prevent crashes due to the head hitting the
drive. All obsolete now.