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> The rate of development of storage size and sales pressure to be first or at > least close IMHO has resulted in any improvements to be used in increasing > storage size rather than improving reliability. In these conditions the more > you squeeze for size the less reliable the product will be. I think we need > a spell of consolidation. I think the next big step will come from new > science, but I could (and have been) wrong. I think this is where SSDs come in. Removing the moving parts to remove one reason for failure (heads impacting on platters) and the energy costs for those on the move, but they are increasing the capacity on those too. I think eventually the move will be away from the traditional HDD and into SSD and then the improvements will be made on those. The major issue is the limited writes with current flash technology. We overcome that, then HDDs will go the way of the Zip Disk. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html