From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263271AbTJUTLC (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:11:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263273AbTJUTLC (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:11:02 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:30214 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263271AbTJUTK6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:10:58 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk se ctors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) Date: 21 Oct 2003 12:10:22 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB2EF@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB2EF@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> By author: "Mudama, Eric" In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > If current trends hold, in the next few years, hard drives are going to have > to pick up and rewrite their data continuously to avoid signal decay on the > media... a drive gets closer and closer to a DRAM cell than a stone tablet. > (And yes, I've heard all the jokes about bricks/stones/etc) > Quite frankly, I think you'll have a hideously hard time selling that to customers, once a few of them have lost their Quicken records due to having had their computers turned off/disconnected for some time. -hpa -- at work, in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64