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System Slowdown Imminent - Prepare Lifeboat!
By bldckstark on 4/11/2008 12:58:11 PM , Rating: 5
HDD's have become a joke in current computer systems. Compare them to just about everything else inside a computer today and it just doesn't make sense. CPU's have gotten thousands of times faster, as have GPU's, RAM sizes have grown a few thousand times and speeds have consistently increased. Optical storage mediums have gone from CD's to BR. HDD sizes have increased, but read/write rates have stagnated in comparison. The only part of a computer that has evolved less is the case.

Whoever actually creates a reasonably priced, robust, high speed replacement for hard drives as we know them today will rake in hundreds of billions of dollars. It would seem to me that we would have more alternatives to the current hard drive on the horizon considering the money to be made. Yet all we ever hear about is somebody who invented a system that we may never be able to manufacture and sell for a decent price.

But maybe it's just me.

RE: System Slowdown Imminent - Prepare Lifeboat!
By Schrag4 on 4/11/2008 2:06:33 PM , Rating: 2
Agreed. While hard drives have gotten much more reliable and somewhat faster over the last 10 years, they're still the thing in my system that I EXPECT to fail first. Not only that, but it's the only really 'important' part in anyone's system. Video card died? Buy a new one. Monitor died? Same answer. Hard drive failed? Oh boy, I hope you're still regularly making backups...

By puffpio on 4/11/2008 8:58:06 PM , Rating: 2
Well yeah..the HDD is one of the few remaining components that have moving parts..of course its gonna fail faster than things w/o moving parts

By Ananke on 4/11/2008 3:23:34 PM , Rating: 2
However, don't forget that is often feasible things to be patented, particularly ideas, since their range is broader. So, IBM will patent this research results, and license in several years to somebody like Intel, for actual implementation in memory chips.

RE: System Slowdown Imminent - Prepare Lifeboat!
By puffpio on 4/11/2008 8:59:49 PM , Rating: 2
I would dispute that because as HDD sizes increase, they are increasing densities, not adding more platters...therefore at the same RPM you get faster transfer speed since the data is stored more densely.

RE: System Slowdown Imminent - Prepare Lifeboat!
By Laitainion on 4/12/2008 4:47:53 AM , Rating: 2
But the scale of that increase is nowhere near the increases in CPU speeds, or even RAM speeds.

After all, DDR2 800 has a peak transfer rate of 6400MB/s whereas DDR 266 (which was standard roughly 10 years ago, I believe) is 2100MB/s. That's an increase of more than 3x.

On the other hand standard (i.e. 7200 RPM) hard drives are stuck on ~80MB/s I believe. Even if the increase in tranfer rate is similar to RAM over the last 10 years, the initial disparity means that hard discs are getting slower in proportion to the rest of the system.

By SlyNine on 4/13/2008 2:27:11 AM , Rating: 2
In 98 they were just moving from EDO ram. Ignore the crappy Techno music at the start.

But it actually helps your point more then anything.

RE: System Slowdown Imminent - Prepare Lifeboat!


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