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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sandy Drobic wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2008-11-20 at 13:13 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
> >
> > > The sad fact is that hdd speed, especially access time has not evolved
> > > with
> > > the same speed as other parts of pc hardware.
> > We need hard disks with two or more independent heads.  :-)~~
>
> Nope, the real solution is not to use hard disk at all anymore. I am eagerly
> waiting for the time when SSDs are becoming reliable, cheap and fast enough
> with enough capacity to be used as replacement. It shouldn't take that long
> anymore.
>
> Recent models offer 200+ mb/s speed. In 3-4 years I expect that most servers
> come equipped with SSDs.

Many years ago, I saw a solid state "disk" from Amdahl (IIRC).  It used 
256K standard DRAM memory, which was quite a lot back in those days.  We 
also had some head per track disk drives (again 256 - 512 KB) that were 
fast enough to be used for "overlays".  Overlays predated virtual memory 
and were loaded into memory as needed.


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