zip discs what next

[breezer]

i have an external zip drive, its great.

along came "dongles" / flash drives, buy buy zip drive (soon)

what do you suppose will be next after dongles / zip drives., surely they cant get any smaller ?

 

[empip]

Solid state disks or storage (for the masses)... coming soon.

Blimey, it's all over us !!

http://www.storagesearch.com/semico-art1.html

But what about cooling? Maybe no problem.

 

[2scoops0406]

Surgically implanted usb ports !! You laugh but .....

Dunno maybe some folk would go for an implanted induction driven mass storage device

 

[breezer]

empip, that was interesting. but what on earth would any one do with a terabyte of storage, it will probaly get worn out before any where near full

 

[empip]

empip, that was interesting. but what on earth would any one do with a terabyte of storage, it will probaly get worn out before any where near full

The www.storagesearch.com site is quite informative...

Editor's intro:- Solid state disks, based on flash technology, have greatly improved in performance in recent years and now compete head to head with RAM based accelerator systems. Flash also has significant advatanges in servers compared to RAM SSDs due to low power consumption. But if you think that all solid state disks which use flash are equally reliable and enduring then think again. That's a bit like saying that a Mercedes 300SL sports coupe is as tough as a Tiger tank because both were made in Germany and both are built out of metal. But as Oddball (Donald Sutherland) says in the movie Kelly's Heroes "I ain't messing with no tigers."
This article by SiliconSystems, shows how their patented architecture cleverly manages the wear out mechanisms inherent in all flash media to deliver a disk lifetime that is about 4 times greater than of other enterprise flash products and upto 100 times greater than intrinsic flash memory....