From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262439AbTJTQYz (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:24:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262507AbTJTQYz (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:24:55 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:55490 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262439AbTJTQYy (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:24:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3F940C42.7080308@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:24:34 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: Rik van Riel , "Mudama, Eric" , "'Nuno Silva'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk se ctors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Battery-backed SRAM "drives" in the gigabyte sizes already exist. > Terabytes should not be too far off. > > Soon those "drives" will be as cheap as their mechanical emulations > and you won't need those metal boxes with the rotating mass anymore. > The batteries last about 10 years. Better than most mechanical > drives. I'm dubious. Ram costs about 150-200X as much as hard drives. I don't see that changing. Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com