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mouse · 03-09-2003, 08:22 PM

In a day that I can buy a 128mb Sony memory stick half the size of my little finger [most of that packaging] Why is it we're still using mechanical disks rather than EEPROM?

Seems to me that reduced access time would be made up for easily using raid-esque arrays. The drives wouldn't have mechanical parts so wouldn't make the noise conventional hard disks do.

Maybe I'm missing something.

03-09-2003, 08:22 PM	PM User \| #1
mouse Regular Coder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North East England Posts: 853 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Why are we still using disks? In a day that I can buy a 128mb Sony memory stick half the size of my little finger [most of that packaging] Why is it we're still using mechanical disks rather than EEPROM? Seems to me that reduced access time would be made up for easily using raid-esque arrays. The drives wouldn't have mechanical parts so wouldn't make the noise conventional hard disks do. Maybe I'm missing something. __________________ [+] Computer/PC issues [+] Silverpaw3D ------------------------------------------------ Never buy a dwarf with learning disabilities... ...it's not big, and it's not clever.