BAR wrote:
In article ,
says...

"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 1/30/2014 2:03 PM, Califbill wrote:
Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...

On 1/28/2014 8:19 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
...if your iMac has a fusion drive, this is a pretty good read on how it
actually works.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6679/a...s-fusion-drive



Interesting. I don't have a clue if my iMac has fusion drive or not. I
don't think so, but I seem to recall reading something about it somewhere.

It's obsolete tech. SSD's are cheaper now.
And you don't need them anyway.
I have an SSD for my OS. It boots faster.
BFD.
Can't tell the difference anywhere else.
My games are still on spinners, plain and not RAIDed.
No noticeable difference.
If you're moving massive files from SSD to SSD, it'll be faster.
SSD's will kill off spinners as prices fall.

Be a long time before SSD kills off spinners! Just the price difference
per Terabyte will keep hard drives selling for years. You remind me of a
fellow engineer when I worked for Maxtor. He stated, he could put all the
storage anybody needed on his desktop. We were designing a 1.9gb 5" drive
at the time. Early 1990's. He did not really have a clue about storage
requirements. Was PC centric. When I designed disk controllers for DEC
systems, customers were using 600 MB washing machine sized drives and were
limited by room real estate as to how many they could install. You have to
consider commercial storage requirements. Credit reporting agencies, NSA,
NASA, banks and all in RAID systems.


I don't think it will be decreased price or additional capacity of SSDs
that kill off spinners. I think it will be the fact that you just don't
need a lot of local storage and future computers won't have it. The
trend is "cloud" storage and has been for several years.

I doubt if the cloud ever kills off spinners. The cloud is just moving the
storage to a different location. As to using the cloud. Maybe for
pictures. But for any financial info, or stuff I do not want in public, no
way! The other problem is retrieving stuff from the cloud. Limited by the
internet. And the internet is going to have a big prob,me very shortly is
and lots of hardware is going to have to be upgraded. Lengthen the address
space as running out of available numbers. I think the cloud is viable,
but not the replacement for local large storage. I own a bunch of Rack
Space stock, so I am betting on cloud usage"

In the early 90's they were squaking about running out of space in the IPv4 address space.
Twenty-five years later and we are still using IPv4. Most networking
equipment today has the
ability to run IPv6, mostly this is tunnelled from IPv6 network to IPv6 network over IPv4.

The problem now, is every little device is getting an IP address. All
those wireless cameras, etc.