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.

"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
m...


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.

On 9/6/13 5:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
an amorphous hard carbon coating as well that protected and added lubricity


Does Mrs. Luddite know you talk like that?

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"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
m...


I'd guess drive failures are the most common problems on computers.

------------------------------------

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.

CD's have already made it to the obsolete bin!

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On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:29:02 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

CD's have already made it to the obsolete bin!

Storing content on little bits of plastic is going the way of the
buggy whip.
The Blue Ray machine may be the last gasp of that technology and I am
not biting.

Same here, never have. Netflix!

Spinning magnetic media only has the advantage of being cheap but it
is cheap so you can afford redundancy.
There is no reason these days that you are not running RAID arrays for
any data you really want to keep.
I have 2 arrays on this machine alone.
Anything I really care about is mirrored on other machines anyway.

Financial stuff is on a removable drive that is only plugged in when I
am using it, copied to a back up and both stored away.

I bought a 2 terabyte portable drive for all of my work and financial
files, etc. I also have a solid state seagate for daily backup.

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On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 13:24:36 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:


I bought a 2 terabyte portable drive for all of my work and financial
files, etc. I also have a solid state seagate for daily backup.


2 terabytes? They could run the New York Stock Exchange with less DASD
than that. ;-)

We keep and use old files from several years ago. Some design files are
30 gigs or so. Add to that files from others on the design teams, plus
spreadsheets, correspondence, and on and on.