news.com.com— "Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for a major product overhaul."
Aug 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
That's a good point, but I think an external drive wouldn't work too well for a swap file either, what about a notebook drive? Do they have anti-shock/anti-vibration technology? Would it be possible to mechanically isolate the drive from the vibrations, possibly with suspension?
@trunksterWhat do you mean "Current hard drives are extremely slow by flash memory standards."?I have a Lexar Jumpdrive 512MB on sdb1 and a 300GB Maxtor 7L300S0 on sda1 This is from the 512MB model /dev/sdb1: Timing cached reads: 2324 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1161.93 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.01 seconds = 25.26 MB/sec This if from the Maxtor /dev/sda1 Timing cached reads: 2328 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1163.93 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 182 MB in 3.00 seconds = 60.58 MB/secAll times generated with hdparm -tT /dev/XXX#Or are you talking about seektimes?
Saves on electricity bill... at least you won't need to turn the heat up ;)All jokes aside though, I have an AMD Opteron 165 at 2.8GHz and to be honest I don't even notice a rise in room temp even with my feet next to the exhaust on the computer. It's just blowing air out of the case, it isn't particularly hot or anything. (Air cooling, not water)
Well, I've heard more than one person say they don't need bigger hard drives.I do. I have a media center PC (MythTV if you're curious) and I can use all the HD space I can use. I am currently at 1.1TB and I could use more. 100TB per square inch gives me a woody...
Yeah, because they're trying to give a physical embodiment to information, which in itself is intangible. It's tantamount to saying "three cups of flavour." I'd expect more of CNET.
cmiller1Aug 24, 2006
That's a good point, but I think an external drive wouldn't work too well for a swap file either, what about a notebook drive? Do they have anti-shock/anti-vibration technology? Would it be possible to mechanically isolate the drive from the vibrations, possibly with suspension?
daldredgeAug 24, 2006
@trunksterWhat do you mean "Current hard drives are extremely slow by flash memory standards."?I have a Lexar Jumpdrive 512MB on sdb1 and a 300GB Maxtor 7L300S0 on sda1 This is from the 512MB model /dev/sdb1: Timing cached reads: 2324 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1161.93 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.01 seconds = 25.26 MB/sec This if from the Maxtor /dev/sda1 Timing cached reads: 2328 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1163.93 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 182 MB in 3.00 seconds = 60.58 MB/secAll times generated with hdparm -tT /dev/XXX#Or are you talking about seektimes?
brendancAug 24, 2006
Saves on electricity bill... at least you won't need to turn the heat up ;)All jokes aside though, I have an AMD Opteron 165 at 2.8GHz and to be honest I don't even notice a rise in room temp even with my feet next to the exhaust on the computer. It's just blowing air out of the case, it isn't particularly hot or anything. (Air cooling, not water)
galadorAug 24, 2006
I've never seen that before, but I laughed so friggin' hard! GIMME MORE DOTS!
dhalgrenAug 24, 2006
Well, I've heard more than one person say they don't need bigger hard drives.I do. I have a media center PC (MythTV if you're curious) and I can use all the HD space I can use. I am currently at 1.1TB and I could use more. 100TB per square inch gives me a woody...
protogenxlAug 24, 2006
how about platter heads that are not linked together so they can move independent of each other speeding up access times.
twoeyesAug 24, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html">http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html</a>I think they should make another one of those for this...
thundersauceAug 24, 2006
Yeah, because they're trying to give a physical embodiment to information, which in itself is intangible. It's tantamount to saying "three cups of flavour." I'd expect more of CNET.