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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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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.)