Next-gen hard drives include laser

tw · 03-20-2012, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

What would you use a 60TB drive to do?...

We were saying that when massive 10 Mbyte drives were available. That industry is simply doing what any productive industry must do.

Back in the early days, we even had one drive that moves its heads with oil. The service call included a pint of motor oil and rags.

Lamplighter · 03-21-2012, 08:16 AM

But it also means that programmers will get more and more sloppy,
and code will just keep expanding to fill the voids,
and never be revised, updated, cleaned up, etc.

Look at MS Word... I'm using Mac v11.3 from 2004, and it is 19.5 MB
It's really no better than MS Word 5.1 which was only 8K on a floppy.
... just a big, fat lummox sitting on my drive, taking longer to load,
and always trying to tell me what it thinks I want to do.

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Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	But it also means that programmers will get more and more sloppy, and code will just keep expanding to fill the voids, and never be revised, updated, cleaned up, etc. Look at MS Word... I'm using Mac v11.3 from 2004, and it is 19.5 MB It's really no better than MS Word 5.1 which was only 8K on a floppy. ... just a big, fat lummox sitting on my drive, taking longer to load, and always trying to tell me what it thinks I want to do.

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