Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB2EF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    "Mudama, Eric" <eric_mudama@xxxxxxxxxx>
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
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