RE: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?)

[Rik van Riel]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Mudama, Eric wrote:

> If current trends hold, in the next few years, hard drives are going to
> have to pick up and rewrite their data continuously to avoid signal
> decay on the media... a drive gets closer and closer to a DRAM cell than
> a stone tablet.

If the current trends hold, most computers won't be powered
on long enough to read all the data that will fit on a disk.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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