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Solid state disk: show me
Solid state disk: show me
Posted Mar 29, 2008 1:11 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Solid state disk: show me by giraffedata
Parent article: Predictive ELF bitmaps
Clarke had it taking a million years in _The City and the Stars_. It seems like we might manage the no-moving-parts dictum, in computers at least, a good bit sooner than that. (I definitely agree with that dictum: `no machine shall contain any moving parts.' As a recipe for long-lived hardware, it has few equals.)
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Solid state disk: show me
Posted Mar 29, 2008 2:00 UTC (Sat) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
Even with zero moving parts, thermal migration of the material on the silicon will limit the life of a computer system.
Solid state disk: show me
Posted Mar 29, 2008 13:21 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yeah, but it's *better*. ;} (now the fix-every-atom-in-place, fix-reality-to-a-virtual-backdrop tech they had in Diaspar, *that* was advanced. And probably physically impossible, but it feels like it should have worked. Ah, Clarke wrote some good stuff in his day.)