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What's an order of magnitude among friends?What's an order of magnitude among friends?Posted Feb 4, 2013 9:45 UTC (Mon) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)In reply to: What's an order of magnitude among friends? by dlang Parent article: Quotes of the week
Indeed. The (now retired) NASA Space Shuttle Main Engine high-pressure oxidizer turbopump spun at 28,120 RPM, and the H.P. fuel turbopump spun at 35,360 RPM. Each of these was around 10 times the dimensions of a typical computer spinning hard drive. Of course, there isn't an actuator arm with a magnetic pickup anywhere near those pumps! Back to the article, while I do admire Daniel's work on Tux3, I'm wondering if the fast I/O speeds of SSDs will render all the optimization work done to FSCK a moot point?
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What's an order of magnitude among friends? Posted Feb 8, 2013 0:51 UTC (Fri) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]
Probably. But not yet. This is just something we need to do because spinning media will still be filling important (though increasingly specialized) roles for at least the next ten years. There are definitely more exciting programming projects around, but without taking care of this Tux3 would be pretty lame.
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